#15543: glossary entry for and 'universal newlines', and links to it.
Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst
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object has a type. An object's type is accessible as its
:attr:`__class__` attribute or can be retrieved with ``type(obj)``.
+ universal newlines
+ A manner of interpreting text streams in which all of 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'``. See :pep:`278` and :pep:`3116`, as well as
+ :func:`str.splitlines` for an additional use.
+
view
The objects returned from :meth:`dict.viewkeys`, :meth:`dict.viewvalues`,
and :meth:`dict.viewitems` are called dictionary views. They are lazy