April 14, 2001
12:54 p.m.
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Just curious: for the applications which Just has in mind, reading source code line-by-line is not really needed. Wouldn't it suffice to read the whole file, split it into lines and then let the tools process the resulting list of lines ?
Maybe a naive approach, but one which will most certainly work on all platforms without having to replace stdio...
The point is to let existing tools work with all line end conventions *without* changing the tools. Whether this means replacing stdio I still don't know <wink>, but it sure means changing the behavior of the Python file object in text mode. Just