Guido van Rossum wrote: > However, the old universal newlines feature also set an attibute named > 'newlines' on the file object to a tuple of up to three elements > giving the actual line endings that were observed on the file so far > (\r, \n, or \r\n).
I've never used it, but I can see how it could be useful, e.g. if you're implementing a text editor that wants to be able to save the file back in the same format it had before. But such a specialised use could just as well be provided by a library facility, such as a wrapper class around a raw I/O stream. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
