New submission from AdamN : This bug from the Ubuntu list is being moved here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-defaults/+bug/570737 Newlines support is enabled on Ubuntu but the example from: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0278/ Does not give the correct results (of True): if hasattr(open, 'newlines'): print 'We have universal newline support' I don't know if this is a documentation problem or whether there is another attr that matters here. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation, Windows messages: 104454 nosy: adamnelson, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: hasattr(open,'newlines') example gives incorrect results from PEP0278 type: behavior versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker http://bugs.python.org/issue8562 _______________________________________