[Python-Dev] [python] Re: New lines, carriage returns, and Windows (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Sep 30 02:22:19 CEST 2007

Michael Foord wrote:

One of the great things about IronPython is that you don't need any wrappers - you access .NET objects natively

But it seems that you really do need wrappers to deal with the line endings problem, whether they're provided automatically or you it yourself manually.

This is reminiscent of the C-string vs. Pascal-string fiasco when Apple switched from Pascal to C as their main application programming language. Some development environments provided glue code that did the translation automatically; others required you to do it yourself, which was a huge nuisance.

-- Greg

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