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authorR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2012-08-15 15:05:36 (GMT)
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@@ -379,13 +379,12 @@ mark the ends of lines in text files. Unix uses the linefeed (ASCII character
10), MacOS uses the carriage return (ASCII character 13), and Windows uses a
two-character sequence of a carriage return plus a newline.
-Python's file objects can now support end of line conventions other than the one
-followed by the platform on which Python is running. Opening a file with the
-mode ``'U'`` or ``'rU'`` will open a file for reading in
-:term:`universal newlines` mode.
-All three line ending conventions will be translated to a ``'\n'`` in the
-strings returned by the various file methods such as :meth:`read` and
-:meth:`readline`.
+Python's file objects can now support end of line conventions other than the
+one followed by the platform on which Python is running. Opening a file with
+the mode ``'U'`` or ``'rU'`` will open a file for reading in :term:`universal
+newlines` mode. All three line ending conventions will be translated to a
+``'\n'`` in the strings returned by the various file methods such as
+:meth:`read` and :meth:`readline`.
Universal newline support is also used when importing modules and when executing
a file with the :func:`execfile` function. This means that Python modules can