[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: [Python-Dev] Import hook to do end-of-line conversion?

[Moshe Zadka]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
 
> That's a good point. The only thing that could break is if
> you opened a non-Unix file in *text* mode, and then expected
> it to behave as though it had been opened in *binary* mode.
> I can't imagine any code being screwy enough to do that!

Then you've got another thing coming. Most UNIXers aren't aware
that the 'b' modifier exists: open(file) opens the file, whether
it is text or binary.
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