Docstrings considered too complicated

[Alf P. Steinbach]

* Steven D'Aprano:
> On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:30:36 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
>> I definitely remember that old MS-DOS programs would treat Ctrl-Z as an
>> EOF marker when it was read from a text file and would terminate a text
>> file with a Ctrl-Z when writing one.
> 
> I believe that Windows (at least up to Windows XP) still supports using 
> ctrl-Z as EOF when reading text files.

It does, at least when the Ctrl Z is the sole contents of a "line".

And it's a pain. :-(

As a practical matter, when entering text in a console window the F6 key 
generates Ctrl Z.


Cheers,

- Alf