[Python-Dev] PEP 385: the eol-type issue

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg <mal <at> egenix.com> writes:
>>
>> IMHO, it would be a lot better to add full Unicode support
>> for line breaks to the io layer. Given that the code for the
>> complicated handling of the CRLF combination is already there,
>> it's not difficult to add support for the remaining line break
>> characters.
> 
> I'm not against anything in principle here, but I'd just like to point out two
> things:
> 
> 1. Changing line break semantics would break compatibility with the current
> behaviour, and it would also diverge from what the `newline` parameter
> specifies; this may be annoying if, for example, the TextIOWrapper class is used
> to parse some network protocols with a rigorous line ending definition

Sure, but that would still be possible using the newline parameter.
We'd only have to find a way to tell the io layer "accept all Unicode
line break characters".

> 2. It would be useful to have some input by the original designers of the IO
> library (the PEP lists Guido, Daniel Stutzbach and Mike Verdone, but I suppose
> other people were involved)

Fair enough.

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