[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: MacPython and line-endings

[Jack Jansen]

Recently, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> said:
> I'm missing something.  Why does your function have to work on a bare
> FILE * rather than on a Python file object?

Sorry, I'm being less than clear. [lemme check ... pompom...]
Yes. All the routines in the import chain (both in the find pass and
in the execute pass) send filenames and FILE*s around. Fileobjects are
nowhere to be seen.

That's really the main reason for my original impression that this
should be done at stdio level: all the logic that is in import.c (and
importdl.c, and probably in the source command, etc) knows nothing
about Python objects and uses normal C conventions. So a Python based
solution (or a solution on the level of fileobjects) won't cut it if
you want this to work also for scripts and modules that are imported.
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