2010/6/4 R. David Murray <report@bugs.python.org>

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> R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> added the comment:
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> This is as documented:
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>   http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/library/io.html#io.TextIOBase.newlines
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> The keyword argument is named 'newline', the attribute is named 'newlines'.
>  The attribute does not record what was passed to the newline argument,
> rather it records what newlines have been actually encountered.
>

Ok, I see. I read, reread the doc prior posting, and, in my mind, it is not
obvious to understand this subtle difference from the doc.
Sorry for the noise.
Regards.