On Friday, June 6, 2014 8:50:57 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > kernel doesn't actually do *anything* with the string, it just passes > it right along to the file system.
Which is what Marko (and others like Armin) are asking of python (treated as a processing 'kernel'): "I know what I am doing with my bytes -- please channel/funnel them around as requested without being unnecessarily and unrequestedly 'intelligent'" -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
