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. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Aug 07 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
