Dave Flogeras added the comment:
Thank you sirs. I've already got a workaround for this situation, and
personally don't care to waste my time with apple. I'm satisfied that Python
is handling bugs seriously and it will hopefully get into an apple release in
the future.
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New submission from Dave Flogeras :
I am trying to unpack boost_1_46_1.tar.bz2 (you can grab it here
http://mirror.its.dal.ca/gentoo/distfiles/boost_1_46_1.tar.bz2) with the
following code:
import tarfile
t = tarfile.open( "boost_1_46_1.tar.bz2" );
t.extractall()
On OSX (both Lio
Dave Flogeras added the comment:
Ok, I'm actually not sure of what I just said. I might not be running the
version I think I am, since windows behaves differently when using a program
started with extensions vs. started with python. It might actually be that
Python 2.7 is correct, bu
New submission from Dave Flogeras :
>From the python prompt, raw_input() (2.7.1) and input (3.2.0) behave as
>documented (they strip the trailing EOL chars)
However the two line test program:
x = raw_input() # or input() in 3.2.x
print( repr( x ))
And then run from the command line
