[Python-Dev] Next version of PEP278 - universal newline support (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com
Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:35:08 +0100

just wrote:

Am I the only one who wants universal newlines without a new mode character? Ideally I'd like existing code that works with text files to accept any line ending.

on a Unix box, does the following piece of code open a text file or a binary data file?

f =3D open(filename)