[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: MacPython and line-endings

[Guido van Rossum]

> A wild idea (and basically why I added Guido to the cc list): file
> objects could make our life a lot simpler if there was a call
> file.readtoterminator(termchars, max), where termchars is a string, which
> would read data up to and including a character in termchars (or until
> 'max' bytes have been read). It would have to be implemented as a
> getc() loop in C, but as we're going to do that looping anyway at some
> point we might as well do it in C and not in Python...

Hm, that makes sense.  I'm missing some context (didn't see Chris
Barker's msg) but feel free to propose a patch for such a method.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)