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Author pitrou
Recipients loewis, movement, pajs@fodder.org.uk, pitrou, ross, terry.reedy
Date 2010-07-09.10:52:24
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3.x doesn't use FILE pointers for the main I/O library (it uses unbuffered I/O instead). It only uses them for importing, and a couple of extension modules such as bz2 and zipimport.

It might still mean, though, that a Python program opening many files might fail importing a module afterwards.
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2010-07-09 10:52:27pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, loewis, terry.reedy, movement, ross, pajs@fodder.org.uk
2010-07-09 10:52:27pitrousetmessageid: <1278672747.23.0.502610987585.issue4609@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010-07-09 10:52:25pitroulinkissue4609 messages
2010-07-09 10:52:25pitroucreate