[Python-Dev] eval and triple quoted strings (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Jun 15 06:08:21 CEST 2013


Guido van Rossum wrote:

Not a bug. The same is done for file input -- CRLF is changed to LF before tokenizing.

I'm not convinced it's reasonable behaviour to re-scan the string as though it's being read from a file. It's a Python string, so it's already been through whatever line-ending transformation is appropriate to get it into memory.

-- Greg



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