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Re: How to write fast into a file in python?

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On 18 May 2013 20:19, "Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> tOn Sat, 18 May 2013 08:49:55 +0100, Fábio Santos
> <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>
> > You mentioned "\n" translating to two lines, but this won't happen. Windows
> > will not mess with what you write to your file. It's just that
> > traditionally windows and windows programs use \r\n instead of just \n. I
> > think it was for compatibility with os/2 or macintosh (I don't remember
> > which), which used \r for newlines.
> >
>         Neither... It goes back to Teletype machines where one sent a
> carriage return to move the printhead back to the left, then sent a line
> feed to advance the paper (while the head was still moving left), and in
> some cases also provided a rub-out character (a do-nothing) to add an
> additional character time delay.
>
>         TRS-80 Mod 1-4 used <cr> for "new line", I believe Apple used <lf>
> for "new line"... And both lost the ability to move down the page
> without also resetting the carriage to the left. In a world where both
> <cr><lf> is used, one could draw a vertical line of | by just spacing
> across the first line, printing |, then repeat <lf><bkspc>| until done.
> To do the same with conventional <lf> is "new line/return" one has to
> transmit all those spaces for each line...
>
>         At 300baud, that took time....



On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Carlos Nepomuceno
<carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> wrote:
> Python really writes '\n\r' on Windows. Just check the files.
>
> Internal representations only keep '\n' for simplicity, but if you wanna keep track of the file length you have to take that into account. ;)


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> Into two characters, not two lines, but yes. A file opened in text
> mode on Windows will have its lines terminated with two characters.
> (And it's old Macs that used to use \r. OS/2 follows the DOS
> convention of \r\n, but again, many apps these days are happy with
> Unix newlines there too.)
>
> ChrisA

Thanks for your corrections and explanations. I stand corrected and
have learned something.

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  Re: How to write fast into a file in python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-17 03:51 +0000
  Re: How to write fast into a file in python? lokeshkoppaka@gmail.com - 2013-05-16 21:35 -0700
    Re: How to write fast into a file in python? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-17 07:58 -0400
    RE: How to write fast into a file in python? Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-17 18:20 +0300
      Re: How to write fast into a file in python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-17 16:42 +0000
        RE: How to write fast into a file in python? Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-17 20:25 +0300
      Re: How to write fast into a file in python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-17 17:47 +0000
        RE: How to write fast into a file in python? Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-17 21:18 +0300
          Re: How to write fast into a file in python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-18 04:01 +0000
            Re: How to write fast into a file in python? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-18 15:28 +1000
            Re: How to write fast into a file in python? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2013-05-18 04:09 -0700
        RE: How to write fast into a file in python? Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-17 21:33 +0300
        RE: How to write fast into a file in python? Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-18 08:49 +0100
        Re: How to write fast into a file in python? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-19 00:29 +1000
        RE: How to write fast into a file in python? Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-18 20:00 +0300
          Re: How to write fast into a file in python? Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2013-05-19 19:04 -0700
        Re: How to write fast into a file in python? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-18 15:14 -0400
          Re: How to write fast into a file in python? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-05-18 15:37 -0400
          Re: How to write fast into a file in python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-18 22:23 +0000
        Re: How to write fast into a file in python? Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-18 22:19 +0100
        Re: How to write fast into a file in python? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-18 22:41 -0400
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    Re: How to write fast into a file in python? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-19 19:21 +1000
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