Issue 33434: ^L character in Lib/email/generator.py (original) (raw)

Issue33434

Created on 2018-05-06 07:54 by hexchain, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (3)
msg316229 - (view)	Author: (hexchain)	Date: 2018-05-06 07:54
There is a "^L" character in line 25 of the Lib/email/generator.py file, and it seems it's there for a long time (since commit 8b3febef2f9). Is it intended or some carelessness? It does not seem to have any functional impact, though.
msg316230 - (view)	Author: Serhiy Storchaka (serhiy.storchaka) *	Date: 2018-05-06 08:12
It is intended. Emacs use it for separating sections of code. Python parser specially supports this character.
msg316231 - (view)	Author: Nathaniel Smith (njs) *	Date: 2018-05-06 08:15
That's a "form feed" or "page break" character: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_break Quoting that page: "The form feed character is sometimes used in plain text files of source code as a delimiter for a page break, or as marker for sections of code. Some editors, in particular emacs and vi, have built-in commands to page up/down on the form feed character. This convention is predominantly used in Lisp code, and is also seen in C and Python source code." It's perhaps a bit old-fashioned, but some of us are old-fashioned kinds of people :-).