On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:56:11 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > You're running this under Windows. The convention on Windows is for > end-of-line to be signalled with \r\n, but the convention inside Python > is to use just \n. With the normal use of buffered and parsed input, > this is all handled for you; with unbuffered input, that translation > also seems to be disabled, so your string actually contains '120\r', as > will be revealed by its repr().
If that's actually the case, then I would call that a bug in raw_input. Actually, raw_input doesn't seem to cope well with embedded newlines even without the -u option. On Linux, I can embed a control character by typing Ctrl-V followed by Ctrl-<char>. E.g. Ctrl-V Ctrl-M to embed a carriage return, Ctrl-V Ctrl-J to embed a newline. So watch: [steve@ando ~]$ python2.7 -c "x = raw_input('Hello? '); print repr(x)" Hello? 120^M^Jabc '120\r' Everything after the newline is lost. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list