[Python-Dev] eval and triple quoted strings

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Not a bug. The same is done for file input -- CRLF is changed to LF 
> before tokenizing.

I'm not convinced it's reasonable behaviour to re-scan the
string as though it's being read from a file. It's a Python
string, so it's already been through whatever line-ending
transformation is appropriate to get it into memory.

-- 
Greg