[Distutils] lineendings

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Robin Becker wrote:
> In article <3DAC69C3.10800@lemburg.com>, M.-A. Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>
> writes
> 
>>Robin Becker wrote:
>>
>>>Does distutils know or care about text file line endings? I ask only
>>>because I would like to be able to build pure python distros and have
>>>them work properly on multiple platforms.
>>
>>Why do you think you need support for line ends in distutils ?
>>For text data files, maybe ? (Python doesn't have a problem with
>>them for source code.)
>>
> 
> well it certainly does in python-2.2.2 and there's pep 278 which seems
> to be concerned as well.
> 
> Try entering 
> 
> import a, \
>         b
> 
> in mac format and then execute on a windows box. I see the following
> 
> 
> C:\>\tmp\ttt.py
>   File "C:\tmp\ttt.py", line 1
>     rlextrareportlab,\
>                                  ^
> SyntaxError: invalid token

Interesting. That must be related to Macs only, though, because
I move around between Windows and Unix on a regular basis and
have so far never had any problem with line ends.

FWIW, Python 2.3 doesn't seem to have this problem anymore
and I remember that Jack worked on universal newline support
some months ago.

BTW, the ZIP utility has an option which takes care of text
files:

Zip 2.3 (November 29th 1999). Usage:
zip [-options] [-b path] [-t mmddyyyy] [-n suffixes] [zipfile list] [-xi list]
   ...
   -0   store only                   -l   convert LF to CR LF (-ll CR LF to LF)

Perhaps that's the way to go ?

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