John Hunter wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Christopher Barker
>> Shouldn't csv2rec open files in Universal mode by default anyway? > > The only down side I can see to this is universal support can be > disabled at build time, though it is on by default. At least this is > my interpretation of > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0278/ well, that was 7 years ago (wow!), I don't know if anyone turns it off now, but in any case, so what? it'll act like it does now ( open() ignores flags it doesn't understand -- at least it did ) > It's a pretty rare bug (in my experience and I work on linux, unix and > os x and freqeuently with excel files) with an easy workaround (pass > in your own file handle) so I am not sure we need a fix here. But why the heck not? and according to the OP, Excel does create such files. Personally, I try to ALWAYS use 'U' when opening text files -- it can save headaches, and I see no downside. It really should be the default -- it's not, because the default was always text, but that was the same as binary on *nix -- so there is a lot of *nix code out there opening binary files without the 'b' flag. So we couldn't change the default back in 2002, it would have broken a LOT of code. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
