"Neil Hodgson" <neilh at scintilla.org> wrote > Python is happy to run programs that use wither \r\n or \n as line > endings - I would have expected the Unix version to be just as capable. actually, if i develop on windows (using \r\n) endlines, just about everything works. but if i use backslashes at the end of a line, the code does not work on unix systems.