[CSV] Re: First Cut at CSV PEP

[Dave Cole]

skip> The table suggests that Excel cares about Windows and Mac line
skip> endings, so we should allow that to be a user-specified option.
skip> Unfortunately, that means we have to tell people to open files
skip> in binary mode, since they will be passing open file objects.
skip> Doesn't seem very clean to me.  Any ideas?

Failing to open a file in binary mode is already a gotcha in Python.
If someone wants to force a particular end of line in the writer then
they must be prepared to open the file in binary mode.

- Dave

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