[Python-Dev] Please review PEP 278 (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] Please review PEP 278 - Universal newline support

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 08 Mar 2002 16:57:33 +0100

Greg Ward wrote:

[Jack] > PEP 278 has been quietly sitting there with nothing much happening, > after some initial discussion with two or three people. > > First question: would people please review it, and preferrably also > test it (esp. windows and linux are platforms on which I would like > to see it tested). +1 on handling any type of newline in Python source. Does this mean fixing the crock where the lexer can handle foreign newlines in files, but not in strings.

This should be easily doable as part of the phase 2 implementation of PEP 263 (source code encoding)... since we're using Unicode line ending conventions by then.

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