[PYTHONMAC-SIG] UNIX files

[Guido van Rossum]

> Hmm, Jack, what would be required to make Python interpret Unix line
> endings, or at least recognize them and display a warning?

I'm not Jack, but I think there's only one or two places where modules
are opened.  I wonder if we could open the file in binary mode and if
we detect a CR in the first 512 bytes, reopen it in text mode...  The
same hack should work for Windows!  On Unix, don't do this at all.

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

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