[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: MacPython and line-endings

[Doug Wyatt]

On Friday, October 5, 2001, at 07:20 , Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Just one thing: for the Python programmer, a line end should *always*
> appear as \n.  Files in text mode are supposed to maintain this
> abstraction.  You should *not* have to know that on Windows it's
> really \r\n, nor that on Mac it's really \r.  (BTW what is it on MacOS
> X, which is Unix based?)

It's whatever the developer wants it to be ... :-/  It depends on the 
ancestry of the code that's reading and writing files.

Traditional Mac apps continue to use \r.

Pretty much everything else uses \n.

Doug

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