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Thu Jan 13 00:02:39 CET 2005 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-January/050960.html

On 12-jan-05, at 2:59, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     terminators = {"darwin": "\r",
>                    "win32": "\r\n"}
>
>     if (dialect.lineterminator != terminators.get(sys.platform, "\n") 
> and
>        "b" not in getattr(f, "mode", "b")):
>        raise IOError, ("%s not opened in binary mode" %
>                        getattr(f, "name", "???"))

On MacOSX you really want universal newlines. CSV files produced by 
older software (such as AppleWorks) will have \r line terminators, but 
lots of other programs will have files with normal \n terminators.
--
Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma 
Goldman

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[Python-Dev] Re: [Csv] csv module and universal newlines