On 04.08.12 02:27, victor.stinner wrote:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/243ad1a6f638 changeset: 78403:243ad1a6f638 branch: 3.2 parent: 78400:f19bea7bbee7 user: Victor Stinner date: Sat Aug 04 01:18:56 2012 +0200 summary: open() / TextIOWrapper doc: make it explicit than newline='\n' doesn't translate newlines on output.

+ " newline is '' or '\n', no translation takes place. If newline is any\n"

Non-escaped "\n".