From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:02:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify "b" mode under Unix.
X-Git-Tag: v2.6a1~391
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2a7d991c6c16145d657e4858a4ef3b9147b183a0;p=python

Clarify "b" mode under Unix.
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
index d3b912a3de..f9eec9703b 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
@@ -200,7 +200,8 @@ characters in text files are automatically altered slightly when data is read or
 written.  This behind-the-scenes modification to file data is fine for ASCII
 text files, but it'll corrupt binary data like that in :file:`JPEG` or
 :file:`EXE` files.  Be very careful to use binary mode when reading and writing
-such files.
+such files.  On Unix, it doesn't hurt to append a ``'b'`` to the mode, so
+you can use it platform-independently for all binary files.
 
 
 .. _tut-filemethods: