[issue13175] packaging uses wrong line endings in RECORD files on Windows
Éric Araujo
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Oct 17 18:12:13 CEST 2011
Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:
>>> The file passed to csv.writer should be opened with newline=''.
>> How will we port this to 2.x?
> No idea :-( The 2.7 documentation says use the 'b' flag, but that
> probably doesn't allow an encoding parameter (it doesn't on 3.x).
Ah, I see that newline controls newline translation. We use codecs.open in distutils2; I think it uses universal newlines mode. We’ll figure it out, the important part is to have good tests.
> The test fails before the fix, passes after. It's a no-op on platforms
> where text and binary files are the same, (i.e., non-Windows systems).
> So it's harmless.
Great. I’ll look at your patch and try to port it to distutils2.
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