[Python-Dev] PEP 278 - finished?

[Guido van Rossum]

> - when mixed newlines are found in a file, can the newlines attribute
>   be a list of those that are found, instead of "mixed"?

Good idea.

> - shouldn't open() mode "wU" also be illegal?

Indeed.

> Other than that, +1 (it would squelch the complaints about the email
> package on systems who's MTA doesn't convert to native-newlines for
> mail program stdin).

Indeed!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)