[Numpy-discussion] whitespace in git repo

[Darren Dale]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:23 PM,  <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Charles R Harris
>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Darren Dale <dsdale24 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> And now the bad news: I have not been able to verify that Git respects
>>> the autocrlf setting or the eol setting in .gitattributes on my
>>> windows 7 computer: I made a new clone and the line endings are LF in
>>> the working directory, both on master and in my whitespace-cleanup
>>> branch (even the nsi.in file!). ("git config -l" confirms that
>>> "core.autocrlf" is "true".) To check my sanity, I tried writing files
>>> using wordpad and notepad to confirm that they are at least using
>>> CRLF, and they are *not*, according to both python's open() and grep
>>> "\r\n". If it were after noon where I live, I would be looking for a
>
> maybe just something obvious: Did you read the files in python as binary 'rb' ?

No, I did not. You are right, this shows \r\n. Why is it necessary to
open them as binary? IIUC (OIDUC), one should use 'rU' to unify line
endings.