[Pythonmac-SIG] PythonMac vs Python Unix for Mac OSX cgi

[Just van Rossum]

Quoting "Steven D. Majewski" <sdm7g@Virginia.EDU>:
> Right now they are rather disjoint:
> 
> MacPython files understand mac file types and if you double click on
> a Python created file, it will be opened by MacPython. The file needs
> to have Mac line-endings. 
> 
> Unix Python runs from the command line, wants unix line-endings and 
> doesn't know anything about file-types or creators ( and won't respond
> to AppleEvents to Open a file from the desktop. 
> 
> They are sort of operating in two different domains. 

I think the first thing to do to get the two versions moving towards one another 
is to get rid of the line-ending problem: both versions should at least be 
indifferent about whether Python sources use \n or \r.

Currently Python depends on line ending translation by the C library: maybe
this should change? I would much prefer the following behavior: returns will be 
replaced by newlines, but newlines stay newlines. Then at least it's possible to 
have the standard library installed only once...

Just