2to3?

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