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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst index f71422f..f4c79e4 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst @@ -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 |