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diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index 0d92170..ddd7e64 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -784,7 +784,13 @@ always available. The standard streams are in text mode by default. To write or read binary data to these, use the underlying binary buffer. For example, to write bytes to :data:`stdout`, use ``sys.stdout.buffer.write(b'abc')``. Using - :meth:`io.TextIOWrapper.detach` streams can be made binary by default. + :meth:`io.TextIOWrapper.detach` streams can be made binary by default. For + example, this function sets all the standard streams to binary: :: + + def make_streams_binary(): + sys.stdin = sys.stdin.detach() + sys.stdout = sys.stout.detach() + sys.stderr = sys.stderr.detach() .. data:: __stdin__ |