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diff --git a/docs/ref/files/file.txt b/docs/ref/files/file.txt index 6874936eab..57f8e9eab3 100644 --- a/docs/ref/files/file.txt +++ b/docs/ref/files/file.txt @@ -53,6 +53,15 @@ The ``File`` Class Iterate over the file yielding one line at a time. + .. versionchanged:: 1.8 + + ``File`` now uses `universal newlines`_. The following are + recognized as ending a line: the Unix end-of-line convention + ``'\n'``, the Windows convention ``'\r\n'``, and the old Macintosh + convention ``'\r'``. + + .. _universal newlines: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0278 + .. method:: chunks([chunk_size=None]) Iterate over the file yielding "chunks" of a given size. ``chunk_size`` |