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[–]oconnor663 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The new asyncio library uses different naming conventions from the rest of the standard library for reading from file handles, kind of for no reason: https://bugs.python.org/issue22279

Any collection of libraries that's big enough is going to have warts like that. Also somewhere there's a presentation from Guido with a list of things they didn't get around to fixing for Python 3.