class _WritelnDecorator(object): """Used to decorate file-like objects with a handy 'writeln' method""" def __init__(self,stream): self.stream = stream def __getattr__(self, attr): if attr in ('stream', '__getstate__'): raise AttributeError(attr) return getattr(self.stream,attr) def writeln(self, arg=None): if arg: self.write(arg) self.write('\n') # text-mode streams translate to \r\n if needed