I've run into some eccentric behavior... It appears that one of my modules is being cut off at exactly 2^14 characters when I try to import it. Has anyone else encountered this? I can't find any mention of such a bug, and stranger yet, other modules that exceed 16384 characters seem to work just fine.
In particular, suppose that my module foo.py contains the following as its last line: thing = "goodbye world" Now, suppose that the length of the file is 16383 characters. It works just fine: Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import foo >>> But if I make the string longer, it explodes: thing = "goodbye world spam spam spam spam spam" Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import foo Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "foo.py", line 583 thing = "goodbye world sp ^ SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string What in the world is going on here?! This happens with Python 2.4 and 2.3.4 on win2k (under vmware), but it does _not_ happen with 2.3.4 on Linux. Very strange! Could vmware be the problem? I have also tried replacing my unix newlines with DOS \r\n with the exact same result. I don't want to spend much time on this, since the workaround of splitting the code into smaller files works just fine, but wow.. weird. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
