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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:33:45 -0500

The PEP seems to assume that the changed behaviour only apply to .readline() and friends. I'm sure that is obvious to you, but for historical reasons beyound my control, the universal newline support in jython normalize all lineendings to a newline for all reads on text files. I think jython is wrong here and your PEP is better.

I hadn't noticed this. I'm not so sure. I would like to be able to write

f = open(filename, 'U') data = f.read()

and then use some regular expression or whatever to munge the text. It would be nice if I would still get universal newline support in this case.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)