[Python-Dev] Unix line endings required for PyRun* breaking embedded Python

[Stuart Bishop]

Just van Rossum wrote:
> Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
> 
>>Just re.sub("[\r\n]+", "\n", s) and I think you're good to go.
> 
> 
> I don't think that in general you want to fold multiple empty lines into
> one. This would be my prefered regex:
> 
>     s = re.sub(r"\r\n?", "\n", s)
> 
> Catches both DOS and old-style Mac line endings. Alternatively, you can
> use s.splitlines():
> 
>     s = "\n".join(s.splitlines()) + "\n"
> 
> This also makes sure the string ends with a \n, which may or may not be
> a good thing, depending on your application.

Do people consider this a bug that should be fixed in Python 2.4.1 and 
Python 2.3.6 (if it ever exists), or is the resposibility for doing this 
transformation on the application that embeds Python?

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Stuart Bishop <stuart at stuartbishop.net>
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