Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
>
>>Egads. So the set of valid Python programs is different depending on what
>>platform you're on? That's just, uhm, insane.
>
>
> No quibble here.
>
>
>>Incidentally, are we sure we've diagnosed this correctly? I'm discussing this
>>with some Python developers and they're expressing skepticism. One just tried
>>a quick test with a Python program containing a mixture of all three newline
>>flavours and it ran fine.
>
>
> He tried reading 'em from files, using Python's text-format-converting
> file reader, no? See the test case posted up-thread, which demonstrates
> that feeding a string directly to PyExec (or whatever its called)
> produces newline-sensitive results.
This is currently being discussed on python-dev:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-January/051203.html
It looks like my earlier concerns were unwarrented - current consensus
seems to be to transform line endings in the string to the
one-true-format expected by Python's guts:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-January/051214.html
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