On 12-jan-05, at 2:59, Skip Montanaro wrote:
terminators = {"darwin": "\r", "win32": "\r\n"}
if (dialect.lineterminator != terminators.get(sys.platform, "\n") and
"b" not in getattr(f, "mode", "b")):
raise IOError, ("%s not opened in binary mode" %
getattr(f, "name", "???"))
On MacOSX you really want universal newlines. CSV files produced by older software (such as AppleWorks) will have \r line terminators, but lots of other programs will have files with normal \n terminators.
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