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Subject: Re: .split() Qeustion
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:05:50 -0400
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On Wed, Aug 14, 2013, at 10:32, wxjmfauth@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm always and still be suprised by the number of hard coded
> '\n' one can find in Python code when the portable (here
> win)
> 
> >>> os.linesep
> '\r\n'
> 
> exists.

Because high-level code isn't supposed to use the os module directly.
Text-mode streams automatically convert newlines you write to them.