Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 2/27/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > > What about \r? > > Mac OS 9 has been dead and unsupported for many years now. Even if the Python code isn't running on MacOS 9, it might want to write a file that will be read by a MacOS 9 system. -- Greg