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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-08-15 15:15:39 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-08-15 15:15:39 (GMT) |
| commit | 5618aaaafeb18e49cb80ce28c63407db48d12c4b (patch) | |
| tree | 554b053d682f4aae066447cb953e74c2ebc93e30 /Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst | |
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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/whatsnew/2.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst index b034eb2..fbde6e5 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst @@ -366,6 +366,9 @@ Under MacOS, :func:`os.listdir` may now return Unicode filenames. .. ====================================================================== +.. index:: + single: universal newlines; What's new + PEP 278: Universal Newline Support ================================== @@ -378,7 +381,8 @@ 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 universal newline mode. +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`. |