On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Fábio Santos <fabiosantos...@gmail.com> wrote: > Putting len(os.linesep)'s value into a local variable will make accessing it > quite a bit faster. But why would you want to do that? > > You mentioned "\n" translating to two lines, but this won't happen. Windows > will not mess with what you write to your file. It's just that traditionally > windows and windows programs use \r\n instead of just \n. I think it was for > compatibility with os/2 or macintosh (I don't remember which), which used \r > for newlines. > > You don't have to follow this convention. If you open a \n-separated file > with *any* text editor other than notepad, your newlines will be okay.
Into two characters, not two lines, but yes. A file opened in text mode on Windows will have its lines terminated with two characters. (And it's old Macs that used to use \r. OS/2 follows the DOS convention of \r\n, but again, many apps these days are happy with Unix newlines there too.) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
