Open files in 'rt' and 'wt' modes

Question

Several times here on SO I\'ve seen people using rt and wt modes for reading and writing files.

For example:

with open(\'in         


        

Answer 1

t indicates for text mode

https://docs.python.org/release/3.1.5/library/functions.html#open

on linux, there's no difference between text mode and binary mode, however, in windows, they converts \n to \r\n when text mode.

http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html