Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> Egads. So the set of valid Python programs is different depending on what
> platform you're on? That's just, uhm, insane.
No quibble here.
> Incidentally, are we sure we've diagnosed this correctly? I'm discussing this
> with some Python developers and they're expressing skepticism. One just tried
> a quick test with a Python program containing a mixture of all three newline
> flavours and it ran fine.
He tried reading 'em from files, using Python's text-format-converting
file reader, no? See the test case posted up-thread, which demonstrates
that feeding a string directly to PyExec (or whatever its called)
produces newline-sensitive results.
regards, tom lane