On Aug 11, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> Is this ok: when newline='\r\n' or newline='\r' is passed, only that >> string is used to determine >> the end of lines. No translation to '\n' is done. > > I *think* it would be more useful if it always returned lines ending > in \n (not \r\n or \r). Wouldn't it? Although this is not how it > currently behaves; when you set newline='\r\n', it returns the \r\n > unchanged, so it would make sense to do this too when newline='\r'. > Caveat user I guess.
Because there's an easy way to translate, having the option to not translate apply to all valid newline values is probably more useful. I do think it's easier to define the behavior this way. > OK, if you think you can, that's good. It's not always sufficient (not > if there was a mix of line endings) but it's a start. Right -Tony _______________________________________________ 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
