From e9387ea773cdffeac5aa8ca094471bfc38ff6d03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 15:26:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] introduce a new platform-specific variable: os.linesep is the
 platform's line separator.  \n on Unix, \r\n on DOS, OS/2 and Windows, \r on
 Macs.

---
 Lib/os.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/os.py b/Lib/os.py
index 6f7e3ed5e7b..fa13a2058c6 100644
--- a/Lib/os.py
+++ b/Lib/os.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 
 if 'posix' in _names:
     name = 'posix'
+    linesep = '\n'
     curdir = '.'; pardir = '..'; sep = '/'; pathsep = ':'
     defpath = ':/bin:/usr/bin'
     from posix import *
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@
     del posixpath
 elif 'nt' in _names:
     name = 'nt'
+    linesep = '\r\n'
     curdir = '.'; pardir = '..'; sep = '\\'; pathsep = ';'
     defpath = '.;C:\\bin'
     from nt import *
@@ -49,6 +51,7 @@
     del ntpath
 elif 'dos' in _names:
     name = 'dos'
+    linesep = '\r\n'
     curdir = '.'; pardir = '..'; sep = '\\'; pathsep = ';'
     defpath = '.;C:\\bin'
     from dos import *
@@ -61,6 +64,7 @@
     del dospath
 elif 'os2' in _names:
     name = 'os2'
+    linesep = '\r\n'
     curdir = '.'; pardir = '..'; sep = '\\'; pathsep = ';'
     defpath = '.;C:\\bin'
     from os2 import *
@@ -73,6 +77,7 @@
     del ntpath
 elif 'mac' in _names:
     name = 'mac'
+    linesep = '\r'
     curdir = ':'; pardir = '::'; sep = ':'; pathsep = '\n'
     defpath = ':'
     from mac import *