BUG? Re: stripping cr/lf, lf, cr

[deadmeat]

> One advantage to this is that if you do work with text files, leaving
> the open in text mode means that you can portably use "\n" within your
> code as a line ending for both reading and writing.

Except people (like Steve, whose example I was replying) will strip
os.linesep, not realising that the same code on Windows won't
work unless the file was opened binary (which is hardly intuitive since it's
a text file to begin with).