os.linesep under Windows

[andres at corrada.com]

On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 05:21:34PM -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> 
>   The C stdio functions convert '\n' to the underlying operating
> system's line separator; that's what their supposed to do.  (The stdio
> functions are the ones that operate on FILE* values, not file
> descriptors.)  So '\n' converts to '\x0D\x0A' ('\r\n') in the C
> libraries, and that's what appears in the file.  The '\x0D\x0A' is
> converted back to '\n' when read back in.
>   Note that these conversions are not performed if the file is opened
> in binary mode; open(..., 'wb') does not enable this conversion.
>   This doesn't actually have much to do with Python, but rather with
> the underlying libraries.

Fred,

Thanks for this explanation. It reminded me of a question I have asked
before but never got a clear answer. If this is due to Python's C
implementation, what happens in JPython? Does Java follow the same
convention? 

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