[Python-Dev] Re: Unix line endings required for PyRun* breakingembedded Python

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Thu Jan 20 00:14:55 CET 2005


Stuart Bishop wrote:

> I don't think it is possible for plpythonu to fix this by simply translating the line endings, as 
> this would require significant knowledge of Python syntax to do correctly (triple quoted strings 
> and character escaping I think).

of course it's possible: that's what the interpreter does when it loads
a script or module, after all...  or in other words,

print repr("""
""")

always prints "\n" (at least on Unix (\n) and Windows (\r\n)).

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