On 5/4/2015 9:35 AM, Davide Mancusi wrote:
I believe this is a bug.
I'm not sure it is, actually; imagine the text is coming in one
character at a time (eg from a pipe), and it's seen "alpha\r". It
knows that this is a line, so it emits it; but until the next
character is read, it can't know whether it's going to be \r or \r\n.
What should it do? Read another character, which might block? Put "\r"
into .newlines, which might be wrong? Once it sees the \n, it knows
that it was \r\n (or rather, it assumes that files do not have lines
of text terminated by \r followed by blank lines terminated by \n -
because that would be stupid).
I think this is a good point. However, I will probably submit a bug
report anyway and let the devs make their decisions. It is at least a
documentation bug.
Be sure to report the exact python binary you are using, as reported
when you start the interactive interpreter or Idle shell.
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