Mass checkin of universal newline support.

Highlights: import and friends will understand any of \r, \n and \r\n
as end of line. Python file input will do the same if you use mode 'U'.
Everything can be disabled by configuring with --without-universal-newlines.

See PEP278 for details.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index d5c5d58..38117a7 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -811,6 +811,13 @@ Modules/getpath.o.
 --with-pydebug:  Enable additional debugging code to help track down
 	memory management problems.  This allows printing a list of all
 	live objects when the interpreter terminates.
+	
+--with(out)-universal-newlines: enable reading of text files with
+	foreign newline convention (default: enabled). In other words,
+	any of \r, \n or \r\n is acceptable as end-of-line character.
+	If enabled import and execfile will automatically accept any newline
+	in files. Python code can open a file with open(file, 'U') to
+	read it in universal newline mode.
 
 
 Building for multiple architectures (using the VPATH feature)