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[Python-Dev] Import hook to do end-of-line conversion?

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Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Just wrote:
> > > > why not fix the compiler instead?
> > > 
> > > Exactly. That is where the correct fix should go. The compile can/should
> > > recognize all types of newlines as the NEWLINE token.
> > 
> > The same goes for file objects in text mode...
> 
> probably -- but changing can break stuff (in theory, at least), and
> may require a PEP.  changing the compiler is more of a bugfix, really...

But if we only fix the compiler, we'll get complaints that other things
don't work, eg. bogus tracebacks due to a non-fixed linecache.py, broken IDE's,
etc.

Btw. I can't seem to think of any examples that would break after such a change.
I mean, who would depend on a \n text file with embedded \r's?

Just

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