Re: New user: Windows, Postgresql, Python

marco@esi.it (Marco Colombo) writes:

> It seems python documentation is plain wrong, or I'm not able to
> read it at all:
>
> http://docs.python.org/ref/physical.html
>
> "A physical line ends in whatever the current platform's convention is for
> terminating lines. On Unix, this is the ASCII LF (linefeed) character. On
> Windows, it is the ASCII sequence CR LF (return followed by linefeed). On
> Macintosh, it is the ASCII CR (return) character."
>
> This is the language _reference_ manual, btw. I'm very surprised to hear
> python on windows is so broken.

I believe this is wrong in two ways - first, it hasn't been updated
to cater for the recent "Universal Newline" support, and second, it
applies only to Python source code files (embedded code using the C
APIs should pass code using C newline conventions, ie \n characters,
as we have confirmed). I've submitted a Python bug report (SF ref
1167922) against the documentation.

I've suggested updated wording for this section as follows:

"""
A physical line is a sequence of characters terminated by an end-of-line
sequence.  In source files, any of the standard platform line
termination sequences can be used - the \UNIX form using \ASCII{} LF
(linefeed), the Windows form using the \ASCII{} sequence CR LF (return
followed by linefeed), or the Macintosh form using the \ASCII{} CR
(return) character.  All of these forms can be used equally, regardless
of platform.

When embedding Python, source code strings should be passed to Python
APIs using the standard C conventions for newline characters (the
\code{\e n} character, representing \ASCII{} LF, is the line
terminator).
"""

Is that clearer?

Paul.
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