Windows Python 2.4: Unbuffered flag causes SyntaxError oninteractive sessions?

[Steve Holden]

Lonnie Princehouse wrote:
> After doing some more reading, I now think this isn't a bug.
> 
> Evidently the unbuffered flag not only makes stdin unbuffered, but it
> also forces it into binary mode.  I didn't realize that when I posted
> earlier.
> 
> So the SyntaxErrors arise because the interpreter isn't converting \r\n
> into \n because stdin is binary.  Not a bug, although it would be nice
> to have an "unbuffered text mode" flag too...
> 
> D'oh.
> 
It seems a little bizarre to me that the compiler isn't prepared to 
treat carriage returns as whitespace during its tokenizations. The only 
area I would anticipate problems would be string literals containing 
end-of-line sequences embedded within triple-quotes.

It would seem to make sense to program the compiler defensively to 
ignore embedded "\r" characters.

regards
  Steve
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