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

Jon Ribbens jon+python-dev@unequivocal.co.uk
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:48:33 +0000

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:

> 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.

Huh? It's nothing to do with parochialism, it's to do with wanting what you read from a file to be what's in the file.

Maybe you can try again without calling names.

Huh? You're confusing me. I didn't call anyone any names.