Some Python 2.1 ideas

[Thomas Wouters]

On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 12:24:13PM -0700, Bjorn Pettersen wrote:
> Greg Jorgensen wrote:

> > "Bjorn Pettersen" <pbjorn at uswest.net> wrote in message
> > [snip]
> > How should these be handled?

> >   "foo\n\n\n"
> >   "foo\n\r\n\r"
> 
> "foo\n\n\n" -> "foo\n\n"
> "foo\n\r\n\r" -> "foo\n\r"

Note that the latter was a trick question! The proper order for DOS-EOL is
'\r\n', *not* '\n\r'. So the string "foo\n\r\n\r" is a Macintosh string, not
a DOS one :-)

> > Wouldn't it be cleaner to enhance the file object with additional
> > methods:
> >
> >   f. readline_chomp()
> >   f.readlines_chomp()

> This would be a good idea, except it wouldn't fit with the standard Python idiom
> for reading files:

And everything that poses as a file object would have to duplicate those
functions, all of a sudden. Guido is pretty conservative in adding
conveniency functions to builtin (and oft-imitated) objects because of that.

-- 
Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net>

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