[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: [Python-Dev] Import hook to do end-of-line conversion?

[Greg Ewing]

Chris Barker <chrishbarker@home.net>:

> Even if people have been sloppy and used binary mode for text files
> under *nix, that code would still work with *nix text files, which is
> the only way it works now anyway.

That's a good point. The only thing that could break is if
you opened a non-Unix file in *text* mode, and then expected
it to behave as though it had been opened in *binary* mode.
I can't imagine any code being screwy enough to do that!

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