"Nick Maclaren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | The question is independent of what the outside system believes a | text file should look like, and is solely what Python believes a | sequence of characters should mean. For example, does 'A\r\nB' | mean that B is separated from A by one newline or two?
The grammar presupposes that Python code is divided into lines. Any successful interpreter must adjust to the external source's idea of line endings. This is implementation, not language definition. The grammar itself has no notion of structure within Python string objects. The split method lets one define anything as chunk separators. The builtin compile method that uses strings as code input specifies \n and only \n as a line ending. The universal line-ending model of string output to files does the same. So from either viewpoint, the unambiguous answer to your question is 'one'. Terry Jan Reedy _______________________________________________ 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
