marduk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 00:16 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> [...]
>> It's not normal to write binary content to stdout - you normally write
>> it to a file. Open the file with open(name, 'wb') to write binaries.
>>
>
> It is interesting that as a "Unix consultant" you should make that
> claim. Especially since
>
>>>> sys.stdout
> <open file '<stdout>', mode 'w' at 0x2aaaaaac9198>
> ^^^^
>
> Indeed there would be a lot of broken Unix systems out there if that
> were not the case.
Ain't ambiguity wonderful? That we use the same word to donote a
collection of bytes on a disk and a software entity that one can write
bytes to allows for all kind of mistaken interpretations.
<mike
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