Dino Viehland wrote: >>Why don't you just use binary mode then? > > That just flips the problem to the other side.
Seems to me that IronPython really needs two string types, "Python string" and ".NET string", with automatic conversion when crossing a boundary between Python code and .NET code. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiem! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com