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

Aahz aahz@pythoncraft.com
Thu, 14 Mar 2002 08:55:52 -0500

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002, Paul Svensson wrote:

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Just van Rossum 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. 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.

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