I just thought about something. Would making readline(s) not glob the line breaking character be a too radical idea? I think that is what most people are expecting from a readline function, anyway. I often see things like [line.strip() for line in open(file).readlines()], which is not so elegant IMHO.
This should be accompanied with a change to writelines that would make it appends to each line the platform-specific line breaking character, as defined by os.linesep. The main objections I would against the change is obviously breaking backward-compatibility, and losing the closure property of readlines/writelines -- i.e., after g.writelines(f.readlines()), g wouldn't have the guarantee to have the same content of f. On the other hand, this could give Python a neat way to convert line breaking characters. Anyway, that was just a random thought. I don't think the change is worthwhile enough, to break backward-compatibility. -- Alexandre _______________________________________________ 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
