On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Monday 04 May 2015 22:13, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> It may be worth documenting this limitation, but it's not something >> that can easily be fixed without removing support for \r newlines - >> although that might be an option, given that non-OSX Macs are >> basically history now. > > Non-OSX Macs are history, but the text files they created are not.
True. Like I said, "might be". I could imagine, for instance, a caveat being put on the newlines attribute saying that "when reading a file delimited by \r, this may erroneously imply that \r\n is being used, until a second line has been read". But that's probably more complexity than it's worth. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
