[Python-Dev] RFC: PEP 460: Add bytes % args and bytes.format(args) to Python 3.5

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sat Jan 11 20:49:47 CET 2014


MRAB writes:

 > > with open("outfile.pdf", "w", encoding="latin-1") as f:
 > >      f.write(pdf)
 > >
 > [snip]
 > The second example won't work because you're forgetting about the
 > handling of line endings in text mode.

Not so fast!  Forgot, yes (me too!), but not work?  Not quite:

    with open("outfile.pdf", "w", encoding="latin-1", newline="") as f:
        f.write(pdf)

should do the trick.


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