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2010/8/30 Skip Montanaro <report@bugs.python.org>:
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> Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> added the comment:
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> A couple wording comments:
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> "All streams are careful about the type of data you give to them"
> would read better as "All streams accept specific types of data".
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> "The default mode is ``'r'`` (open for reading text, synonym of
> ``'rt'``)". I liked the original wording better.
Feel free to change it; it's been committed.
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> Finally, not specific to this change, but I wonder if rather than
> having distinct io.StringIO and io.BytesIO classes it would be better
> to have a single io.MemoryIO class which takes mode arguments just
> like io.FileIO? The correspondence between file-based and memory-
> based i/o would be more one-to-one. Such a class could be added
> without breaking existing code by using the StringIO and BytesIO
> classes as the back-end for a MemoryIO class.
What advantage would that have? |
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