> BTW, any reason why an EncodedFile can't act like a Unicode > writer/reader object > if one of its encodings is explicitly set to None?
AFAIU, that's not the intention of EncodedFile: instead, it is meant to do recoding. I find it a pretty useless API, and rather see it go away than being enhanced. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list