[issue6664] readlines should understand Line Separator and Paragraph Separator characters
Antoine Pitrou
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Jan 3 21:22:04 CET 2011
Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
By design, readlines() only recognizes those characters which are official line separators on various OSes (\n, \r, \r\n). This is important for proper parsing of log files, internet protocols, etc.
If you want to split on all line separators recognized by the unicode spec, use str.splitlines().
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resolution: -> rejected
status: open -> closed
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