On 02/25/2013 05:52 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Nobody is asking anyone to support "every Windows wart out there". > Windows-style line separators are not a wart, it is a convention used by > many, many tools, operating systems, data formats (e.g. email), etc. It > is an old, old convention, going back to teletype days and so predating > not just Windows but also Unix. So in fact it is *Unix* that broke the > convention, and Unix line separators which is the "wart" (or at least a > regression).
That's really interesting. I didn't know that before. It does make sense. As much as I love unix, it really originated as a hack in many senses. With that in mind I think Linux should allow a trailing CR in the shebang line, even if other unix OS's don't. Of course it's a minor thing, and there are ways of dealing with it. This is a reminder to me how much we Linux users look at Windows as a quaint anomaly with it's apparently backwards ways of doing things (like backslash directory separators, like CP/M did), but forget it is still the dominant platform out there for general purpose computing. So it really could be argued that Linux indeed is the backward OS when it comes to these kind of incompatibilities (though I still think I like it better!) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
