-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Aug 15, 2007, at 3:47 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> On 8/14/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I thought some more about the universal newlines situation, and I >> think I can handle all the use cases with a single 'newline' >> parameter. The use cases are: >> >> (A) input use cases: >> >> (1) newline=None: input with default universal newlines mode; lines >> may end in \r, \n, or \r\n, and these are translated to \n. >> >> (2) newline='': input with untranslated universal newlines mode; >> lines >> may end in \r, \n, or \r\n, and these are returned untranslated. >> >> (3) newline='\r', newline='\n', newline='\r\n': input lines must end >> with the given character(s), and these are translated to \n. >> >> (B) output use cases: >> >> (1) newline=None: every \n written is translated to os.linesep. >> >> (2) newline='': no translation takes place. >> >> (3) newline='\r', newline='\n', newline='\r\n': every \n written is >> translated to the value of newline. >> > > I like the options, but I would swap the meaning of None and the empty > string. My reasoning for this is that for option 3 it says to me > "here is a string representing EOL, and make it \n". So I would think > of the empty string as, "I don't know what EOL is, but I want it > translated to \n". Then None means, "I don't want any translation > done" by the fact that the argument is not a string. In other words, > the existence of a string argument means you want EOL translated to > \n, and the specific value of 'newline' specifying how to determine > what EOL is. What Brett said. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRsLwznEjvBPtnXfVAQKMQAP9FzztQ09re2pLBN/uNKrLCf2i5Z1ENZQU Rbfwv8Ek2ZcBurvDht8Oyj3wgOzOKUhk6XfHdHD0Mf3CW9XL6dMvSZHQOv3sORQF Fh6MI4B9HezL/Fuy2C9OenM0TaYHkH5aoYagIjM9/LOezEkxliHU/gOMGY4657dG Turqz+xPunw= =xC3V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
