Message 125558 - Python tracker

> Haypo: I believe that the consensus we've come to is that you
> shouldn't have to.  FieldStorage should take a binary stream.  So
> should cgi.parse.  If defaulting to sys.stdin, then if stdin is text,
> they should turn it in to a binary stream right at the start.

Is mutating sys.stdin really a good idea? Or am I misunderstand your
proposal?