On 19/05/2018 01:42, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Fri, 18 May 2018 22:53:06 +0100, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> declaimed the
following:
I've worked with text files for 40 years. Now Python is telling me I've
been doing it wrong all that time!
Look at the original code I posted from which this Python was based.
That creates a file - just a file - without worrying about whether it's
text or binary. Files are just collections of bytes, as far as the OS is
concerned.
And on Windows, there is a difference.
On Windows, sending a <lf> byte to a TEXT file will result in writing
<cr><lf>. On Windows a new-line is indicated by that combination: <cr><lf>.
Are you sure that's Windows itself, and not just the C library? (Which
was presumably trying to be helpful by making programs work on Unix and
Windows without changes, but is actually a nuisance.)
Some Windows programs may need cr,lf, but I doubt they well convert
between lf and cr,lf unless they use C file functions.
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