Interpreter fussy about line endings?

Joe Strout joe at strout.net
Wed May 5 19:59:53 EDT 1999


In article <3730CE67.C6B9063 at compaq.com>, Greg Ewing
<greg.ewing at compaq.com> wrote:

> > Text files aren't portable in or out of the Python world.
> 
> I understand that about text files in general, but
> I had expected the interpreter to be more lenient
> about what it expects as source text.

That's a reasonable expectation.  And on the Mac, it's even true.  :^)

Cheers,
-- Joe

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