[Python-Dev] PEP 278 - finished?

[Jack Jansen]

On maandag, maart 25, 2002, at 10:16 , Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> I didn't study the patch too carefully, so I'll ask:  When this is
> disabled through the configure flag, is the 'U' mode still recognized?
> I think it ought to be allowed then (and mean simply text mode) so
> that Python code opening files in universal mode doesn't have to be
> prepared for that situation (it can't use the newlines attribute, but
> that's rarely needed I expect).

Good point. You can now also use "U" mode in 
non-universal-newline-builds.

> Before we go ahead, I'd like MvL and MAL to have a look at the patch
> to see if there would be interactions with their implementation plans
> for PEP 262.
>
> I still think that this PEP is a big hack -- but as big hacks go, it
> seems to have a pretty good payback.
>
> I'm hoping that eventually the parser (really the lexer) will be able
> to open the file in binary mode and recognize all three newline styles
> directly.  That would solve the problems with exec, eval, and compile.
>
> Missing:
>
> - docs for the new open mode and file attributes (!!!)

Done.

> - docs for the --with-universal-newlines flag in README

Done.

> - the linecache and py_compile modules should use mode 'U'

Done.

> (any others?)

Yes, lots of candidates, but I haven't fixed these. uu comes to 
mind, xmllib and htmllib and such, probably lots more...
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