Oct. 31, 2001
5:48 p.m.
Radical idea: don't do anything to turn on "universal newlines" -- say it's just what "text mode" means in Python. Then you only have to worry about picking a letter to turn it off <wink>.
That would be my choice. KISS. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)