On 8/9/05, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote: > We could always give the text mode/binary mode distinction in "open" a real > meaning - text mode deals with character sequences, binary mode deals with > byte sequences. I thought that's what I proposed before. I'm still for it. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)