Just van Rossum <just@letterror.com> wrote:
> > on a Unix box, does the following piece of code
> > open a text file or a binary data file?
> >
> > f = open(filename)
>
> If it's not a text file, that code is broken.
(a) I dispute that.
(b) You're going to break an awful lot of code if that isn't going to
work anymore.