Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> but personally I would prefer the programming language >> just give me the OS, warts and all. > > Then you don't want Python. The point of Python is to give you data > types like "list", "dict", "int" (not a machine word but a bignum), > and so on.
Those examples are out of the scope of the OS abstraction. > It's NOT meant to be a thin wrapper around what your OS > offers. Thankfully, Python hasn't yet taken that away. I can do a lot of nice things with socket.* and os.* that are unavailable in, say, Java. > Python's string is a Unicode string, not a series of bytes (as is C's > char* type), because human text is better represented as Unicode than > as bytes; No problem there, either. > so it stands to reason that Python's files should be able to contain > text, Yes, and lists and dicts and ints and objects and all. No problem there. However, when filenames and sys.stdin deal with text, things are getting iffy. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
