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

Bob Kline bkline at rksystems.com
Tue Apr 3 17:30:49 EDT 2001


On 3 Apr 2001, David Bolen wrote:

> Which is literally correct for that platform.  Note however, that
> depending on how you open a file, library routines (typically the C
> RTL on the platform, not even Python itself) may translate this
> physical EOL indicator into a single NL internally.  That's the
> difference between a text open and a binary open under Windows for
> example.

That's one of the differences.  The other is that ASCII 26 (Control-Z)
is treated as EOF on Windows.

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Bob Kline
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