[Python-3000] Lines breaking

[Greg Ewing]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> The Unicode newline recommendation is all about making the use of
> characters match their physical presentation.  If on a printer, you
> force a new page with FF, you will see a physical line break at the
> end of the page containing the FF.  Similarly with VT.

I'm worried here about loss of information. Currently,
a Python-recognised line break character signifies
a line break and nothing else. You can read a file as
lines, strip off the newlines, do some processing, and
add the newlines back in when writing out the results,
without losing anything essential.

But an FF or VT is not *just* a line break, it can
have other semantics attatched to it as well. So
treating it just the same as a \n by default would be
wrong, I think.

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