Binary vs. Text mode

[Dave Brueck]

Absolutely. I hope I didn't make it sound like this was Python's doing;
thanks for making that clear.

-Dave

> As I have read in previous postings, this is not a feature of
> Python but rather a feature of C. This 'feature' regularly bites people
> working on Macs and PCs. On Unix, C's behavior is transparent but on Macs
> '\n' is converted to '\r' while on Win32 '\n' is converted to '\r\n'.
>