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

Andy Gimblett gimbo@ftech.net
Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:53:38 +0000

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:46:43AM -0500, Paul Svensson wrote:

No, you're not the only one. Of course, this will break some unix code where the author forgot to add a "b" when opening a binary file, but I'd say they deserve to lose.

Forgive my ignorance, but why? I'm not trying to be provocative, that's a serious question from someone who thought that as far as unix was concerned, a file consists of bytes and "that's that". So I'd be interested to know, what are the negative implications of such an omission?

Thanks,

Andy

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