On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 4:17 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > In Python 3 it's possible to specify the newline character, but I've > found that it won't accept the null character as newline. I don't know > why. :-(
Because it isn't a legal value. "newline controls how universal newlines works (it only applies to text mode). It can be None, '', '\n', '\r', and '\r\n'." Why it was designed that way, I don't know. Maybe to avoid scenarios where the selected newline has more than one representation in the selected encoding. Cheers, Ian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
