I thought PEP 3016 spells out all the details necessary. And the docstring for open() in io.py as well. Aren't those enough?
On Dec 27, 2007 11:19 PM, Alexandre Vassalotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I had a hard time, earlier today, figuring out what was the rules for > converting newline characters (only from the code of > io.TextIOWrapper). So, I wrote some notes for myself. I don't know if > there's any documentation about this yet -- that is why am posting my > notes to the list. Free it to use them for whatever you want to. > > Cheers, > -- Alexandre > > > Known newline type: > LF: \n or "universal newline" > CRLF: \r\n > CR: \r > > Argument | > value | Notes > ---------+------------------------------------------------------- > None | Default mode for open(). > | LF are converted to the value of os.linesep on writes. > | Convert any known newline type to LF on reads. > | Readline splits on LF. > ---------+------------------------------------------------------- > "" | No conversions on writes. > | No conversions on reads. > | Readline splits on any known newline type. > ---------+------------------------------------------------------- > LF | Default mode for StringIO. > | No conversions on writes. > | No conversions on reads. > | Readline splits on LF. > ---------+------------------------------------------------------- > CRLF | Convert LF to CRLF on writes. > | No conversions on reads. > | Readline splits on CRLF. > ---------+------------------------------------------------------- > CR | Convert LF to CR on writes. > | No conversions on reads. > | Readline splits on CR. > ---------+------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Python-3000 mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
