Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> Peter Otten writes:
>
>> If a "line" is defined as a string that ends with a newline
>>
>> def ends_in_asterisk(line):
>> return False
>>
>> would also satisfy the requirement. Lies, damned lies, and specs ;)
>
> Even if a "line" is defined as a string that comes from reading
> something like a file with default options, a line may end in
> an asterisk.
Note that the last line from the file is not a line as defined by me in the
above post ;)
>>>> [ line.endswith('*') for line in StringIO('rivi*\nrivi*\nrivi*') ]
> [False, False, True]
I wish there were a way to prohibit such files. Maybe a special value
with open(..., newline="normalize") f:
assert all(line.endswith("\n") for line in f)
to ensure that all lines end with "\n"?
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