Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary

[Mark H Harris]

On 3/21/14 5:44 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> I'm pleased to see that you have answers. In return would you either use
> the mailing list https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list or
> read and action this https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython to
> prevent us seeing double line spacing and single line paragraphs, thanks.

I perceive that this is your singular pet peeve, or, you were elected by 
the python community some time ago to police the line-end problem ?

I notice (since moving my stuff to Thunderbird two weeks back) the 
double spacing you keep squawking about, but I don't find it the big 
nuisance you're talking about; ok, so we have to scroll a bit further.

I am honestly convinced that this might even be a python problem.  More 
likely than not, gg is written in python, and this is the goofy line-end 
character problem we have to deal with when we read lines in python.

Why do we suck in the new-line character as though it were part of the 
line?  This is asinine behavior.  The new-line is a "file" delimiter 
character and NOT intended to be part of the line.

Thinking this through a bit I've noticed that a blank line comes back 
with a '\n'  which differentiates it from file end which comes back 
"without" the new-line.  So, it appears that python is using the 
new-line character (or lack there-of) to have meaning which the new=line 
in a unix file was never suppose to carry.

If python would just return EOF like every other language at file end, 
and a test line without '\n' tacked to the end of it, this little snag 
with gg would probably go away.  What say you?

Of course, that does not alleviate all of the rest of gg's short 
comings!   <sigh>

marcus