[Python-ideas] Re: TextIOWrapper support for null-terminated lines

On 24Oct2020 13:37, Dan Sommers <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com> wrote:

On 2020-10-24 at 12:29:01 -0400, Brian Allen Vanderburg II via Python-ideas wrote:

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... Find can output it's filenames in null-terminated lines since it is possible to have newlines in a filename(yuck) ...

Spaces in filenames are just as bad, and much more common:

But much easier to handle in simple text listings, which are newline delimited. You're really running into a horrible behaviour from xargs, which is one reason why GNU parallel exists. Cheers, Cameron Simpson