>> I believe this is a bug. > > I'm not sure it is, actually; imagine the text is coming in one > character at a time (eg from a pipe), and it's seen "alpha\r". It > knows that this is a line, so it emits it; but until the next > character is read, it can't know whether it's going to be \r or \r\n. > What should it do? Read another character, which might block? Put "\r" > into .newlines, which might be wrong? Once it sees the \n, it knows > that it was \r\n (or rather, it assumes that files do not have lines > of text terminated by \r followed by blank lines terminated by \n - > because that would be stupid).
I think this is a good point. However, I will probably submit a bug report anyway and let the devs make their decisions. It is at least a documentation bug. Cheers, Davide -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
