[Python-Dev] End of the line

[Tim Peters]

> The latest versions of the Icon language [convert \r\n, \r and \n to
> plain \n in text mode upon read, and convert \n to the platform convention
> on write]

It's a trend <wink>:  the latest version of the REBOL language also does
this.

The Java compiler does it for Java source files, but I don't know how
runtime file read/write work in Java.

Anyone know offhand if there's a reliable way to determine whether an open
file descriptor (a C FILE*) is seekable?

if-i'm-doomed-to-get-obsessed-by-this-may-as-well-make-it-faster-
    too-ly y'rs  - tim