[Python-Dev] New lines, carriage returns, and Windows

[Greg Ewing]

Nick Maclaren wrote:
> Grrk.  That's the problem.  You don't get back what you have written

You do as long as you *don't* use universal newlines mode
for reading. This is the best that can be done, because
universal newlines are inherently ambiguous.

If you want universal newlines, you just have to accept
that you can't also have \r characters meaning something
other than newlines in your files. This is true regardless
of what programming language or I/O model is being used.

--
Greg