[Python-3000] Lines breaking

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed May 30 03:15:02 CEST 2007


Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> For example, .splitlines considers carriage-return (CR)
> characters as well, and you don't seem to complain about
> that.

That doesn't bother me so much because \r as a line
boundary is a well-established convention on some
platforms. But I've *never* heard of FF or VT being
used as line delimiters. If they were, I would regard
it as an application-specific convention requiring
special coding for that application.

--
Greg


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