rewrite binary std streams part; note that detach()/buffer will not always work

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Benjamin Peterson 2009-06-14 18:41:18 +00:00
parent 6a38ceda03
commit 995bb47c17

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@ -784,13 +784,18 @@ always available.
The standard streams are in text mode by default. To write or read binary
data to these, use the underlying binary buffer. For example, to write bytes
to :data:`stdout`, use ``sys.stdout.buffer.write(b'abc')``. Using
:meth:`io.TextIOBase.detach` streams can be made binary by default. For
example, this function sets all the standard streams to binary::
:meth:`io.TextIOBase.detach` streams can be made binary by default. This
function sets :data:`stdin` and :data:`stdout` to binary::
def make_streams_binary():
sys.stdin = sys.stdin.detach()
sys.stdout = sys.stdout.detach()
sys.stderr = sys.stderr.detach()
Note that the streams can be replaced with objects (like
:class:`io.StringIO`) that do not support the
:attr:`~io.BufferedIOBase.buffer` attribute or the
:meth:`~io.BufferedIOBase.detach` method and can raise :exc:`AttributeError`
or :exc:`io.UnsupportedOperation`.
.. data:: __stdin__