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

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:09:05 +0100

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

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 = open(filename)

If it's not a text file, that code is broken. The question is: can we afford to physically break that broken code? Probably not. That's why I've said earlier that it might be an idea to turn the universal line ending hook off by default on platforms where there is currently no difference between text and binary mode.

(But I quite like your textfile() proposal, too.)

Just