On 9/29/07, Michael Foord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Terry Reedy wrote: > > There are two normal ways for internal Python text to have \r\n: > > 1. Read from a file with \r\r\n. Then \r\r\n is correct output (on the > > same platform). > > 2. Intentially put there by a programmer. If s/he also chooses default \n > > translation on output, \r<translation of \n> is correct. > > > Actually, I usually get these strings from Windows UI components. A file > containing '\r\n' is read in with '\r\n' being translated to '\n'. New > user input is added containing '\r\n' line endings. The file is written > out and now contains a mix of '\r\n' and '\r\r\n'.
Out of curiosity, why don't the Python wrappers for your Windows UI components do the appropriate '\r\n' -> '\n' conversions? STeVe -- I'm not *in*-sane. Indeed, I am so far *out* of sane that you appear a tiny blip on the distant coast of sanity. --- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com