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

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M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> Just curious: for the applications which Just has in mind,
> reading source code line-by-line is not really needed. Wouldn't
> it suffice to read the whole file, split it into lines and then
> let the tools process the resulting list of lines ?
> 
> Maybe a naive approach, but one which will most certainly work
> on all platforms without having to replace stdio...

The point is to let existing tools work with all line end conventions *without*
changing the tools. Whether this means replacing stdio I still don't know
<wink>, but it sure means changing the behavior of the Python file object in
text mode.

Just

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