[Python-Dev] Re: [Csv] csv module and universal newlines (original) (raw)

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl
Thu Jan 13 00:02:39 CET 2005

On 12-jan-05, at 2:59, Skip Montanaro wrote:

terminators = {"darwin": "\r", "win32": "\r\n"}

if (dialect.lineterminator != terminators.get(sys.platform, "\n") and "b" not in getattr(f, "mode", "b")): raise IOError, ("%s not opened in binary mode" % getattr(f, "name", "???"))

On MacOSX you really want universal newlines. CSV files produced by older software (such as AppleWorks) will have \r line terminators, but lots of other programs will have files with normal \n terminators.

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