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

[Jack Jansen]

Recently, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> said:
> > 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.

Chris: would this method help you? If it would I can put in a patch
for the C code, but I'll leave the Python stuff to you.
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