Message 69876 - Python tracker

> This behavior is inherited from the C-level fopen() and therefore
> "normal text mode" is whatever that defines.

> Is this really nowhere documented?

Relation to fopen() function may be documented, but there is no
explanation of what "normal text mode" is. Is it really pythonic that a
script writer without former experience with C, stdio and fopen should
be aware of inherited fopen "behavior" when programming Python?