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Add notes about universal newlines.

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Guido van Rossum 2002-08-15 14:01:14 +00:00
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@ -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.