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

[Andy Gimblett]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:46:43AM -0500, Paul Svensson wrote:

> 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.

Forgive my ignorance, but why?  I'm not trying to be provocative,
that's a serious question from someone who thought that as far as unix
was concerned, a file consists of bytes and "that's that".  So I'd be
interested to know, what are the negative implications of such an
omission?

Thanks,

Andy

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