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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:09:45 -0500

Please don't change this. The reason I use Python is because it Does What You Tell It To, unlike certain other languages with the same initial. If you make the standard simple form of the open() call, i.e. open(filename) start doing weird shit to files that is a big step down the Dark Path to Perlishness. Please leave open() like it is and make a new mode specifier for doing new things.

(And yes I know on Windows it already does stupid things, but that's the operating system's fault not the language.)

Sounds like a rather parochial attitude, if you ask me. Maybe you can try again without calling names.

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