[Python-Dev] New lines, carriage returns, and Windows (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Sep 27 19:35:18 CEST 2007

[moving to python-3000]

The symmetry isn't as strong as you suggest, but I agree it would be a useful feature. Would you mind filing a Py3k feature request so we don't forget?

A proposal for an API given the existing newlines=... parameter (described in detail in PEP 3116) would be even better.

And a patch would be best, but you know that. :-)

--Guido

On 9/26/07, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

Greg> Maybe there should be a universal newlines mode defined for output Greg> as well as input, which translates any of "\r", "\n" or "\r\n" Greg> into the platform line ending. I thought that's the way it was supposed to work, but it clearly doesn't: >>> f = open("test.txt", "wt") >>> f.write("a\rb\rnc\n") 7 >>> f.close() >>> open("test.txt", "rb").read() b'a\rb\rnc\n' I'd be open to such a change. Principle of least surprise? Skip

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