Re: codecs.open and buffering modes...

2009-02-14 Thread Sam
Hmmm...no one knows the reason for the discrepancy? Should I post on the developers' list to see if anyone knows? Thanks On Feb 9, 6:19 pm, Sam wrote: > codecs.open defaults to line buffering.  But open defaults to using > the system buffer size.  Why the discrepancy?  Is it different for a > r

codecs.open and buffering modes...

2009-02-10 Thread Sam
codecs.open defaults to line buffering. But open defaults to using the system buffer size. Why the discrepancy? Is it different for a reason? How do these choices affect performance? (Particularly under Linux). Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list