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[Python-Dev] PEP 385: the eol-type issue

From: M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com>
Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:48:39 +0200
Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg <mal <at> egenix.com> writes:>>>> IMHO, it would be a lot better to add full Unicode support>> for line breaks to the io layer. Given that the code for the>> complicated handling of the CRLF combination is already there,>> it's not difficult to add support for the remaining line break>> characters.> > I'm not against anything in principle here, but I'd just like to point out two> things:> > 1. Changing line break semantics would break compatibility with the current> behaviour, and it would also diverge from what the `newline` parameter> specifies; this may be annoying if, for example, the TextIOWrapper class is used> to parse some network protocols with a rigorous line ending definition

Sure, but that would still be possible using the newline parameter.
We'd only have to find a way to tell the io layer "accept all Unicode
line break characters".

> 2. It would be useful to have some input by the original designers of the IO> library (the PEP lists Guido, Daniel Stutzbach and Mike Verdone, but I suppose> other people were involved)

Fair enough.

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