Re: [Python-ideas] Iterating non-newline-separated files should be easier

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:

Adding a single possible newline character is a much simpler change, and one likely to have far fewer odd consequences. This is especially so if specifying NULL as the line separator is only permitted for files opened in binary mode.

U+0000 is a valid Unicode character, so I'd have no objection to, for instance, splitting a UTF-8 encoded text file on \0. ChrisA