On Feb 17, 12:33 pm, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > Yes, it's really the official way. You can google up the discussion > between me and Guido on the python-dev list if you don't trust me. ;) > The docs concur with me, too. > > http://docs.python.org/3.0/library/sys.html#sys.stdin > > Note: The standard streams are in text mode by default. To write or read > binary data to these, use the underlying binary buffer. For example, to > write bytes to stdout, use sys.stdout.buffer.write(b'abc').
Thanks! Incidentally, the 'Note:' section you reference in the HTML docs doesn't appear to be in the .CHM file that installs with the windows version of 3.01. That would have made my search a lot easier :-% -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
