[Python-3000] Lines breaking (original) (raw)

Alexandre Vassalotti alexandre at peadrop.com
Tue May 29 01:49:33 CEST 2007

On 5/28/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

Can you or someone supply a patch? Put it in the SourceForge patch manager and post here.

I can't promise anything, since I am quite busy my SoC project, but I could try to supply a patch, if you and the other developers are in favor for the change. A few other methods would need to be changed too to conform fully to the standard -- I am thinking especially of the file methods readline/readlines. So, the change should probably be documented in a PEP.

OTOH I don't believe that's how 2.x implements these methods, and AFAIK nobody's complained. Is in necessary to change? At the very least I'd be opposed if it changed the behavior of splitting ASCII-only text.

The change would extend the line breaking behavior to three other ASCII characters: NEL "Next Line" 85 VT "Vertical Tab" 0B FF "Form Feed" 0C Of course, it is not really necessary to change, but I think full conformance to the standard [1] could give Python better support of multilingual texts. However, full conformance would require a good amount of work. So, it is true that it is probably better to postpone it until someone complaint.

-- Alexandre

[1] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/tr14-19.html

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