David M. Beazley <beaz...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment: I agree with Raymond. For binary reads, I'll go farther and say that even a 10% slowdown in performance would be surprising if not unacceptable to some people. I know that as hard as it might be for everyone to believe, there are a lot of people who crank lots of non- Unicode data with Python. In fact, Python 2.X is pretty good at it.
It's fine that text mode now uses Unicode, but if I don't want that, I would certainly expect the binary file modes to run at virtually the same speed as Python 2 (e.g., okay, they work with bytes instead of strings, but is the bytes type really all that different from the old Python 2 str type?). _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4561> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
