[Python-Dev] CSV, bytes and encodings (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu Apr 2 06:35:22 CEST 2009

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009, skip at pobox.com wrote:

Antoine> Perhaps. But without using 'rU' the file couldn't be read at Antoine> all. (I'm not sure it was Windows line endings by the way; Antoine> perhaps Macintosh ones; anyway, it didn't work using 'rb') Please file a bug report and assign to me. Does it work in 2.x? What was the source of the file?

Perhaps there have been changes, but in my last job, I was running into this problem with Python 2.3, and I also needed to open with 'rU' under Linux.

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