[issue15543] central documentation for 'universal newlines'

[Chris Jerdonek]

Chris Jerdonek added the comment:

> There may (or may not :-)) be a misunderstanding. Universal newlines are not discouraged; it's the legacy "U" flag which is deprecated.

Already understood. :)  (I said "in the built-in open() function" above and meant "mode" as in "flag".)

I nosied you only because you copy and pasted information about universal newlines that might benefit from a glossary entry or some such about universal newlines.

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