John Hunter wrote: > 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 > > John: 'rU' apparently doesn't work for gzipped text files (at least in python 2.5.2). I had to change the default in back to 'r' when using gzip.open (r6846 in trunk).
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