\r\n or \n notepad editor end line ???

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Mon Jun 13 05:53:25 EDT 2005


<ajikoe at gmail.com> wrote:

> It means in windows we should use 'wb' to write and 'rb' to read ?
> Am I right?

no.

you should use "wb" to write *binary* files, and "rb" to read *binary*
files.

if you're working with *text* files (that is, files that contain lines of text
separated by line separators), you should use "w" and "r" instead, and
treat a single "\n" as the line separator.

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