On 8/15/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Olsen wrote: > > On 8/14/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > (2) newline='': input with untranslated universal newlines mode; lines > > > may end in \r, \n, or \r\n, and these are returned untranslated. > > > > Caveat: this mode cannot be supported by sockets. When reading a lone > > \r you need to peek ahead to ensure the next character is not a \n, > > but for sockets that may block indefinitely. > > You could return as soon as you see the '\r', with > a flag set indicating that if the next character > that comes in is '\n' it should be ignored.
That would be the *other* universal newlines mode. ;) (Once you're already modifying the output, you might as well convert everything to '\n'.) -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ 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
