On: The PEPs of Python 3.9

[zb]

Let’s be clear here that the fault is not with Python but with Windows.

Python uses text mode by default to avoid surprising beginners on Windows. If you only use Unix-like OSs you will never have this problem.

[BiteCode_dev → zb]

The problem is not "text mode by default". The problem is that the API offers a text mode at all.

Opening a file should return an object that gives you bytes, and that's it.

This "mode" thing is idiotic, and leak a low level API that makes no sense in a high level language with a strong abstraction for text like Python.

Text should decoded from a wrapping object. See my ohter comments.