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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Sep 30 02:30:45 CEST 2007

Nick Maclaren wrote:

Grrk. That's the problem. You don't get back what you have written

You do as long as you don't use universal newlines mode for reading. This is the best that can be done, because universal newlines are inherently ambiguous.

If you want universal newlines, you just have to accept that you can't also have \r characters meaning something other than newlines in your files. This is true regardless of what programming language or I/O model is being used.

-- Greg

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