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

[Guido van Rossum]

> Please don't change this. The reason I use Python is because it
> Does What You Tell It To, unlike certain other languages with the same
> initial. If you make the standard simple form of the open() call,
> i.e. open(filename) start doing weird shit to files that is a big step
> down the Dark Path to Perlishness. Please leave open() like it is and
> make a new mode specifier for doing new things.
> 
> (And yes I know on Windows it already does stupid things, but that's
> the operating system's fault not the language.)

Sounds like a rather parochial attitude, if you ask me.  Maybe you can
try again without calling names.

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