[plugin] binary sys.stdout/err on win32

[Martin Pool]

On 18 Jun 2006, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> I just created a very simple plugin which sets sys.stdout and stderr to
> binary for win32.
> 
> This is the sum total of the code:
> 
> import sys
> 
> if sys.platform in ('win32', 'cygwin'):
>     try:
>         import msvcrt, os
>     except ImportError:
>         pass
>     else:
>         msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
>         msvcrt.setmode(sys.stderr.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)

Presumably we should set stdin as well?  Or does it do no conversion
there?

Well, I'd put the most weight on what Alexander or other full-time
Windows developers think would work.  But to me it seems like a
reasonable approach that we should get the streams in binary mode at the
top level and then do conversion ourselves as and when necessary; it
makes the divergence between platforms smaller. 

-- 
Martin