On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Christopher Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote:
> 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. Fair enough -- changed on the trunk in r6845 JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
