[Python-Dev] Please review PEP 278 - Universal newline support

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Greg Ward wrote:
> 
> [Jack]
> > PEP 278 has been quietly sitting there with nothing much happening,
> > after some initial discussion with two or three people.
> >
> > First question: would people please review it, and preferrably also
> > test it (esp. windows and linux are platforms on which I would like
> > to see it tested).
> 
> +1 on handling any type of newline in Python source.  Does this mean
> fixing the crock where the lexer can handle foreign newlines in files,
> but not in strings. 

This should be easily doable as part of the phase 2 implementation
of PEP 263 (source code encoding)... since we're using Unicode
line ending conventions by then.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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