[Chicago] Windows end-of-line and Python

[Jon Sudlow]

I had to grapple with this very issue when parsing a 3d data set. I just
used a regex and cut the \n and the \rs out of it so it wouldn't get
confused.

Show your friend some data structures in python, that will change their
mind.

As to whether its a bug or not Im not sure.

-Jon
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Jonathan Hayward <
jonathan.hayward at pobox.com> wrote:

> Today I was visiting with a friend and installing OSS on his computer. On
> an x86_64 Windows 7 box, he had already installed Apache, and I installed
> Python with a python.org installer. I opened up Notepad and created a
> "Hello world" Python CGI script, put it in the cgi-bin directory, saw it
> crash, and looked in the logs.
>
> The log message complained that I had tried to "import cgi\r": in other
> words, Python on Windows was choking because the file I made in Notepad used
> "\r\n" for line breaks. (The equivalent script made with vim, and presumably
> "\n" for line breaks worked predictably.)
>
> Isn't it a defect/design flaw for Python on Windows to choke on
> "\r\n"-separated files? Should I file a bug, or is this a side effect of
> decisions that are now non-negotiable? (I wasn't thrilled, after trying to
> sell my friend on the idea that Python is a good language with a low barrier
> to entry, to find that it choked on a Notepad-edited "Hello world!" CGI
> script.)
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