[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: [Python-Dev] Import hook to do end-of-line conversion?

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue, 10 Apr 2001 11:56:09 +1200 (NZST)


Guido:

> code written on
> Unix with no expectation to ever leave Unix, can currently be sloppy
> about using binary mode

Maybe there should be a third mode, "extremely text mode",
which Python-source-processing utilities (and anything else
which wants to be cross-platform-line-ending-friendly) can
use.

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