[Python-Dev] py_compile and CR in source files

Just made an unpleasant discovery: if a Python source file has CR-LF line-endings, you can import it just fine under Unix. But attempting to 'py_compile.compile()' it fails with a SyntaxError at the first line-ending. Arrghh! This means that Distutils will either have to check/convert line-endings at build-time (hey, finally, a good excuse for the "build_py" command), or implicitly compile modules by importing them (instead of using 'py_compile.compile()'). Perhaps I should "build" modules by line-at-a-time copying -- currently it copies them in 16k chunks, which would make it hard to fix line endings. Hmmm. Greg