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Re: when does newlines get set in universal newlines mode?

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Date 2015-05-05 18:41 +1000
Subject Re: when does newlines get set in universal newlines mode?
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.112.1430815275.12865.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Monday 04 May 2015 22:13, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> It may be worth documenting this limitation, but it's not something
>> that can easily be fixed without removing support for \r newlines -
>> although that might be an option, given that non-OSX Macs are
>> basically history now.
>
> Non-OSX Macs are history, but the text files they created are not.

True. Like I said, "might be". I could imagine, for instance, a caveat
being put on the newlines attribute saying that "when reading a file
delimited by \r, this may erroneously imply that \r\n is being used,
until a second line has been read". But that's probably more
complexity than it's worth.

ChrisA

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when does newlines get set in universal newlines mode? arekfu@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 02:50 -0700
  Re: when does newlines get set in universal newlines mode? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-05-04 14:01 +0200
  Re: when does newlines get set in universal newlines mode? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-04 22:13 +1000
    Re: when does newlines get set in universal newlines mode? Davide Mancusi <arekfu@gmail.com> - 2015-05-04 06:35 -0700
      Re: when does newlines get set in universal newlines mode? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-05-04 13:38 -0400
    Re: when does newlines get set in universal newlines mode? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-05 18:31 +1000
      Re: when does newlines get set in universal newlines mode? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 18:41 +1000
        Re: when does newlines get set in universal newlines mode? Davide Mancusi <arekfu@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 02:23 -0700
          Re: when does newlines get set in universal newlines mode? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 19:28 +1000
            Re: when does newlines get set in universal newlines mode? Davide Mancusi <arekfu@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 03:58 -0700
  Re: when does newlines get set in universal newlines mode? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-05-04 17:17 +0200
  Re: when does newlines get set in universal newlines mode? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 01:26 +1000
  Re: when does newlines get set in universal newlines mode? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-05-04 09:33 -0600

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