Greg> Maybe there should be a universal newlines mode defined for output
Greg> as well as input, which translates any of "\r", "\n" or "\r\n"
Greg> into the platform line ending.
I thought that's the way it was supposed to work, but it clearly doesn't:
>>> f = open("test.txt", "wt")
>>> f.write("a\rb\rnc\n")
7
>>> f.close()
>>> open("test.txt", "rb").read()
b'a\rb\rnc\n'
I'd be open to such a change. Principle of least surprise?
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