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		zahlman on Oct 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PEP 760: No more bare excepts It's still amazing to me that the old `csv` module expected you to open the file in binary mode. (This was fixed in 3.1 - the 3.0 release was honestly quite premature.)

mananaysiempre on Oct 9, 2024 [–]

And to this day it somehow has its own universal newlines implementation. Perhaps there’s a reason for that, but I’ve never heard of one.

zahlman on Oct 10, 2024 | [–]

Wait, what? I'm going to have to investigate that.

mananaysiempre on Oct 10, 2024 | | [–]

Footnote 1 (the only one) on https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html.

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