tomer filiba wrote: > [Talin] > >>Well, as far as readline goes: In order to split the text into lines, >>you have to decode the text first anyway, which is a layer 3 operation. >>You can't just read bytes until you get a \n, because the file you are >>reading might be encoded in UCS2 or something. > > well, the LineBufferedLayer can be "configured" to split on any > "marker", i.e.: LineBufferedLayer(stream, marker = "\x00\x0a") > and of course layer 3, which creates layer 2, can set this marker > to any byte sequence. note it's a *byte* sequence, not chars, > since this passes down to layer 1 transparently.
That isn't what is required; for big-endian UCS-2 or UTF-16, "\x00\x0a" should only be recognized as LF if it is at an even byte position. -- David Hopwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
