Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've written lots of things whose standard out was designed > > specifically to be read by another program, but never as binary data. > > Plenty of applications use that functionality and depend on it. See > cjpeg, djpeg, the pbmplus library, and so forth.
Also "tar cf files... | compress > tarball.Z" used to be a standard idiom, now replaced by "tar cfz ..." which does about the same thing under the covers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
