[Python-3000] Proposed new language for newline parameter to TextIOBase

Thu Aug 16 04:01:04 CEST 2007

Adam Olsen wrote:
> On 8/14/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
 >
> > (2) newline='': input with untranslated universal newlines mode; lines
> > may end in \r, \n, or \r\n, and these are returned untranslated.
>> Caveat: this mode cannot be supported by sockets. When reading a lone
> \r you need to peek ahead to ensure the next character is not a \n,
> but for sockets that may block indefinitely.

You could return as soon as you see the '\r', with
a flag set indicating that if the next character
that comes in is '\n' it should be ignored.
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