Creating LF, NEL line terminators by accident? (python3)

[Adam Funk]

Hi,

I have a Python 3 (using 3.6.7) program that reads a TSV file, does
some churning with the data, and writes a TSV file out.

#v+
print('reading', options.input_file)
with open(options.input_file, 'r', encoding='utf-8-sig') as f:
    for line in f.readlines():
        row = line.split('\t')
        # DO STUFF WITH THE CELLS IN THE ROW

# ...

print('writing', options.output_file)
with open(options.output_file, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
    # MAKE THE HEADER list of str
    f.write('\t'.join(header) + '\n')

    for doc_id in sorted(all_ids):
    	# CREATE A ROW list of str FOR EACH DOCUMENT ID
	f.write('\t'.join(row) + '\n')
#v-

I noticed that the file command on the output returns "UTF-8 Unicode
text, with very long lines, with LF, NEL line terminators".

I'd never come across NEL terminators until now, and I've never
(AFAIK) created a file with them before.  Any idea why this is
happening?

(I tried changing the input encoding from 'utf-8-sig' to 'utf-8' but
got the same results with the output.)

Thanks,
Adam


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