Nick Coghlan added the comment: Ah, excellent point about "encoding='utf-8'" already being a less cryptic replacement for universal_newlines=True, so consider my questions withdrawn :)
As far as universal_newlines goes, that needs to remain documented for the sake of folks reading code that uses it, and folks that need compatibility with older versions, but +1 for recommending specifying an encoding over using that flag for new 3.6+ code. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6135> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com