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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue May 29 08:03:59 CEST 2007

On 5/29/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

>> VT "Vertical Tab" 0B >> FF "Form Feed" 0C > > -1 on making these line-breaking characters by default. > I like my ASCII text file lines broken by newline chars > and nothing else.

The question, of course, is what a newline char is; this whole mess originates from disagreement about this issue. For example, .splitlines considers carriage-return (CR) characters as well, and you don't seem to complain about that.

Well, I would have complained about that too, except I was too busy when splitlines() was snuck into the language behind my back. :-) I should add that it has never caused me grief even though it is flagrant disagreement with Python's general concept of line endings.

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