Adam Olsen wrote:
> On 8/14/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 >
> > (2) newline='': input with untranslated universal newlines mode; lines
> > may end in \r, \n, or \r\n, and these are returned untranslated.
> 
> Caveat: this mode cannot be supported by sockets.  When reading a lone
> \r you need to peek ahead to ensure the next character is not a \n,
> but for sockets that may block indefinitely.

You could return as soon as you see the '\r', with
a flag set indicating that if the next character
that comes in is '\n' it should be ignored.

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