[Python-Dev] Next version of PEP278 - universal newline support - available

[Paul Svensson]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Just van Rossum wrote:

>Am I the only one who wants universal newlines *without* a new mode character?
>Ideally I'd like *existing* code that works with text files to accept any line
>ending.

No, you're not the only one.
Of course, this will break some unix code where the author forgot to add
a "b" when opening a binary file, but I'd say they deserve to lose.

	/Paul