Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amaur...@gmail.com> added the comment: The docs say:: Files are always opened in binary mode, even if no binary mode was specified. This is done to avoid data loss due to encodings using 8-bit values. This means that no automatic conversion of '\n' is done on reading and writing.
But this does not match the code of codecs.open():: if encoding is not None and \ 'b' not in mode: # Force opening of the file in binary mode mode = mode + 'b' When the encoding is None, the file is opened in text mode. Marc-Andre, what do you think? is it a documentation bug instead? ---------- assignee: -> lemburg nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc, lemburg _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7262> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com