From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 18:33:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Made the default mode 'rb' instead of 'r', for better cross-platform
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.2c1~45
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9bb76d1b73d4498d87fbe75f23da466c1cb80e98;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Made the default mode 'rb' instead of 'r', for better cross-platform
support.  (Based on comment on the documentation by Bernhard Reiter
<bernhard@csd.uwm.edu>).
---

diff --git a/Lib/gzip.py b/Lib/gzip.py
index c0179a4716e1..793bf5c58593 100644
--- a/Lib/gzip.py
+++ b/Lib/gzip.py
@@ -30,13 +30,13 @@ class GzipFile:
     def __init__(self, filename=None, mode=None, 
                  compresslevel=9, fileobj=None):
         if fileobj is None:
-            fileobj = self.myfileobj = __builtin__.open(filename, mode or 'r')
+            fileobj = self.myfileobj = __builtin__.open(filename, mode or 'rb')
         if filename is None:
             if hasattr(fileobj, 'name'): filename = fileobj.name
             else: filename = ''
         if mode is None:
             if hasattr(fileobj, 'mode'): mode = fileobj.mode
-            else: mode = 'r'
+            else: mode = 'rb'
 
         if mode[0:1] == 'r':
             self.mode = READ