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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst index 0cc29f6..f71422f 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`. |