From add88060c1d1a98c7970e35b326e6a65a17ddf04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:01:14 +0000 Subject: Add notes about universal newlines. --- Misc/NEWS | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 3e9e1aa..5abfb42 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -233,6 +233,12 @@ Core and builtins - The UTF-8 codec will now encode and decode Unicode surrogates correctly and without raising exceptions for unpaired ones. +- Universal newlines (PEP 278) is implemented. Briefly, using 'U' + instead of 'r' when opening a text file for reading changes the line + ending convention so that any of '\r', '\r\n', and '\n' is + recognized (even mixed in one file); all three are converted to + '\n', the standard Python line end character. + - file.xreadlines() now raises a ValueError if the file is closed: Previously, an xreadlines object was returned which would raise a ValueError when the xreadlines.next() method was called. @@ -463,8 +469,10 @@ Build doc strings from the builtin functions and modules; this reduces the size of the executable. -- XXX WITH_UNIVERSAL_NEWLINES Somebody fill this in; the PEP doesn't - say how or when to configure it, or how to turn it off. +- The universal newlines option (PEP 278) is on by default. On Unix + it can be disabled by passing --without-universal-newlines to the + configure script. On other platforms, remove + WITH_UNIVERSAL_NEWLINES from pyconfig.h. - On Unix, a shared libpython2.3.so can be created with --enable-shared. -- cgit v0.12