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Author	techtonik
Recipients	georg.brandl, skip.montanaro, techtonik
Date	2008-07-16.05:08:14
SpamBayes Score	0.027707405
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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That's weird and the worst is that it is not documented. Manual says: "If Python is built without universal newline support a mode with 'U' is the same as normal text mode." but no information about what is "normal text mode" behaviour. The way Python works that you describe is weird, but true. If developer uses Windows platform - Unix and Windows files will be handled in the same way, but not files from Mac platform. The worst that developer can't know this, because he is unlikely to have any Mac files to test. This behavior is like a long standing mine to collate Windows and Mac Python users. Why not to fix it?

That's weird and the worst is that it is not documented. Manual says:

"If Python is built without universal newline support a mode with 'U' is
the same as normal text mode." 

but no information about what is "normal text mode" behaviour.

The way Python works that you describe is weird, but true. If developer
uses Windows platform - Unix and Windows files will be handled in the
same way, but not files from Mac platform. The worst that developer
can't know this, because he is unlikely to have any Mac files to test.

This behavior is like a long standing mine to collate Windows and Mac
Python users. Why not to fix it?

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-07-16 05:08:17	techtonik	set	spambayes_score: 0.0277074 -> 0.027707405 recipients: + techtonik, skip.montanaro, georg.brandl
2008-07-16 05:08:17	techtonik	set	spambayes_score: 0.0277074 -> 0.0277074 messageid: <[email protected]>
2008-07-16 05:08:16	techtonik	link	issue3359 messages
2008-07-16 05:08:14	techtonik	create