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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-08-15 14:43:58 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-08-15 14:43:58 (GMT) |
| commit | 1b00f25bf99d9b7a5f307984f6467258de636d23 (patch) | |
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#15543: glossary entry for and 'universal newlines', and links to it.
Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
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diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index bf1234d..7cd9905 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -600,6 +600,13 @@ Glossary object has a type. An object's type is accessible as its :attr:`__class__` attribute or can be retrieved with ``type(obj)``. + universal newlines + A manner of interpreting text streams in which all of the following are + recognized as ending a line: the Unix end-of-line convention ``'\n'``, + the Windows convention ``'\r\n'``, and the old Macintosh convention + ``'\r'``. See :pep:`278` and :pep:`3116`, as well as + :func:`str.splitlines` for an additional use. + view The objects returned from :meth:`dict.keys`, :meth:`dict.values`, and :meth:`dict.items` are called dictionary views. They are lazy sequences |