[Python-Dev] Re: [Csv] csv module and universal newlines

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl
Thu Jan 13 00:02:39 CET 2005


On 12-jan-05, at 2:59, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     terminators = {"darwin": "\r",
>                    "win32": "\r\n"}
>
>     if (dialect.lineterminator != terminators.get(sys.platform, "\n") 
> and
>        "b" not in getattr(f, "mode", "b")):
>        raise IOError, ("%s not opened in binary mode" %
>                        getattr(f, "name", "???"))

On MacOSX you really want universal newlines. CSV files produced by 
older software (such as AppleWorks) will have \r line terminators, but 
lots of other programs will have files with normal \n terminators.
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