Re: [Python-Dev] Implementing File Modes

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:21:30 am MRAB wrote:
>
> > What about stderr? You could add "e" if you want to read from it.
>
> "Read from stderr" is just a read. "Write to stderr" is just a write. 
> The difference between reading stdout and stderr is not that you have 
> different modes, but that you are reading from different files.
By the same argument, aren't stdin and stdout also different files?
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