[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: [Python-Dev] Import hook to do end-of-line conversion?

[Aahz Maruch]

Just van Rossum wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>> I don't know why this thread lead to tweaking stdio -- after all
>> we only need a solution for the Python tokenizer and not a general
>> purpose stdio abstraction of text files unless I'm missing something
>> here...
> 
> Aaaaaaaaaaaargh! ;-) Here we go again: fixing the tokenizer is great and all,
> but then what about all tools that read source files line by line? Eg.
> linecache.py, all IDE's, etc. etc. 

<grin>  I'll repeat my question of yesterday: is there any reason why we
couldn't start with QIO?  I did some checking after I sent that out, and
QIO claims that it can be configured to recognize different kinds of
line endings.  QIO is claimed to be 2-3 times faster than Python 1.5.2;
don't know how that compares to 2.x.

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