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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/2.5.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/2.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst index ff599c8..5033024 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst @@ -1338,9 +1338,12 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the SVN logs for all the details. .. XXX need to provide some more detail here + .. index:: + single: universal newlines; What's new + * The :mod:`fileinput` module was made more flexible. Unicode filenames are now supported, and a *mode* parameter that defaults to ``"r"`` was added to the - :func:`input` function to allow opening files in binary or universal-newline + :func:`input` function to allow opening files in binary or :term:`universal newlines` mode. Another new parameter, *openhook*, lets you use a function other than :func:`open` to open the input files. Once you're iterating over the set of files, the :class:`FileInput` object's new :meth:`fileno` returns the file |