On 6 December 2017 at 16:18, Glenn Linderman <[email protected]> wrote: > "b" mostly matters on Windows, correct? And Windows doesn't use C or POSIX > locale, correct? And if these are correct, then is this an issue? And if so, > why?
In Python 3, "b" matters everywhere, since it controls whether the stream gets wrapped in TextIOWrapper or not. It's only in Python 2 that the distinction is Windows-specific (where it controls how "\r\n" sequences get handled). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com