[Python-Dev] [python] Re: New lines, carriage returns, and Windows

[Greg Ewing]

Michael Foord wrote:
> One of the great things about IronPython is that you don't *need* any 
> wrappers - you access .NET objects natively

But it seems that you really *do* need wrappers to
deal with the line endings problem, whether they're
provided automatically or you it yourself manually.

This is reminiscent of the C-string vs. Pascal-string
fiasco when Apple switched from Pascal to C as their
main application programming language. Some development
environments provided glue code that did the translation
automatically; others required you to do it yourself,
which was a huge nuisance.

--
Greg