[Python-Dev] RFC: PEP 460: Add bytes % args and bytes.format(args) to Python 3.5 (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sat Jan 11 20:49:47 CET 2014


MRAB writes:

with open("outfile.pdf", "w", encoding="latin-1") as f: f.write(pdf)

[snip] The second example won't work because you're forgetting about the handling of line endings in text mode.

Not so fast! Forgot, yes (me too!), but not work? Not quite:

with open("outfile.pdf", "w", encoding="latin-1", newline="") as f:
    f.write(pdf)

should do the trick.



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