On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:18:44 -0700 Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/25/2013 06:14 AM, Dave Angel wrote: > > It's not Python that needs dos2unix, it's bash or equivalent. For > > some reason, bash shebang processing still isn't tolerant of a > > trailing cr on the line. Python doesn't care. > > Actually, the shell isn't involved in parsing the shebang line at all. > That's actually done in the kernel by the program loader. So it's the > kernel that has a problem with it; wonder if Linus would accept a > patch to ignore the tailing CR?
So much the wrong solution. First of all, I don't think that Linus is on the bash development team so he can't help there. Also, bash is not the only shell in the world. And, Linux is not the only operating system in the world. There are still a lot of Unix systems (the system that Linux is a clone of) out there. FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Mac OSX, etc. You can't expect all of them to bend over backwards for every Windows wart out there. I don't run Windows myself so I can't test it but doesn't Python on Windows work fine with Unix style EOL? So why not strip out the CR and run the same file everywhere? -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. IM: da...@vex.net, VOIP: sip:da...@vex.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
