> There's talk on the PythonMac-SIG to create an import hook that would > read modules with either \r, \n or \r\n newlines and convert them to > the local convention before feeding them to the rest of the import > machinery. The reason this has become interesting is the mixed > unixness/macness of MacOSX, where such an import hook could be used to > share a Python tree between MacPython and bsd-Python. They would only > need a different site.py (probably), living somehwere near the head of > sys.path, that would be in local end of line convention and enable the > hook. > > However, it seem that such a module would have a much more general > scope, for instance if you're accessing samba partitions from windows, > or other foreign file systems, etc. > > Does this sound like a good idea? And (even better:-) has anyone done > this already? Would it be of enough interest to include it in the > core Lib? I know that it's too late for 2.1, but for 2.2, I think we can do better: like Java, the import mechanism should accept all three line ending conventions on all platforms! It would also be nice if opening a file in text mode did this transformation, but alas, that would probably require more work on the file object than I care for. But import should be doable! --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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