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2to3?

Posted Jun 2, 2025 10:23 UTC (Mon) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118)
In reply to: 2to3? by Cyberax
Parent article: Recent disruptive changes from Setuptools

> Sigh. Now it's clear that people like you are the result of this string disaster.

Whatever point you were trying to make, I'm sure it would have been better off *without* this personal attack.

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2to3?

Posted Jun 2, 2025 12:51 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

I can understand Cyberax' frustration ...

To clarify his point (and yes it took me a while to get it)

"why do other people think it's perfectly okay to trash my data when I haven't told them to!".

File opens should NOT DEFAULT to "assume the contents are mutable and can be altered by the computer without warning". It's a disaster in waiting ...

Still, it goes back as far as ftp, so that's a long way - I can still remember trying to recover the contents of a binary data file that had been transferred in text mode ... and even if it is text, I can remember trying to get printers to work because some stupid system thought it would treat it according to the system convention not the printer definition ...

Cheers,
Wol