On 5/29/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> VT "Vertical Tab" 0B > >> FF "Form Feed" 0C > > > > -1 on making these line-breaking characters by default. > > I like my ASCII text file lines broken by newline chars > > and nothing else. > > The question, of course, is what a newline char is; this > whole mess originates from disagreement about this issue. > > For example, .splitlines considers carriage-return (CR) > characters as well, and you don't seem to complain about > that.
Well, I would have complained about that too, except I was too busy when splitlines() was snuck into the language behind my back. :-) I should add that it has never caused me grief even though it is flagrant disagreement with Python's general concept of line endings. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
