New submission from David <vencabot_tep...@hotmail.com>:
Qualifier: This is the first issue that I've raised, so I apologise before-hand
for any protocol flubs.
str.splitlines()'s implementation jives unexpectedly with str.split().
In this code snippet, a server buffers input until it receives a blank line,
and then it processes the input:
request_buffer = ""
while request_buffer.split("\n")[-1] != "" or request_buffer == "":
request_buffer += self.conn.recv(1024)
print("Got a line!")
print("Got an empty line!")
self.handleRequest(request_buffer)
I found out the hard way that this code isn't prepared to handle clients that
use a different "new line" standard, such as those that send "\r". I discovered
str.splitlines() at that point and found that, to some extent, it works as
advertised: splitting lines regardless of exactly what new line character is
being used.
However, this code doesn't work:
request_buffer = ""
while request_buffer.splitlines[-1] != "" or request_buffer == "":
request_buffer += self.conn.recv(1024)
print("Got a line!")
print("Got an empty line!")
self.handleRequest(request_buffer)
Python complains that -1 is out of request_buffer.splitlines()'s range. I know
that str.splitlines() treats empty lines, because I've used it on longer
strings for testing trailing blank lines before; it only refuses to count a
line as being blank if there isn't another line after it. "derp".splitlines()
has a length of 1, but "".splitlines() has a length of 0. "derp\n".splitlines()
also has a length of 1, thus excluding the trailing blank line.
In my opinion, "".splitlines() should have 1 element. "derp".splitlines()
should persist as having 1 element, but "derp\n".splitlines() should have 2
elements. This would result in the same functionality as str.split("\n") (where
"\n".split("\n") results in two empty-string elements), but it would have the
benefit of working predictably with all line-breaking standards, which I assume
was the idea all along.
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messages: 97245
nosy: vencabot_teppoo
severity: normal
status: open
title: Counterintuitive str.splitlines() inconsistency.
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6
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