On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:24:31AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > Now that you say that, I seem to recall that this has been reported > before. It seems odd that in today's climate the Python interpreter > would not cope well with Windows-style newlines. Maybe there is some > configuration issue with Python itself? Hmmmm.... #include <Python.h> int main(void) { Py_Initialize(); PyRun_SimpleString("print 'What hath'\n" "print 'Guido wrought?'\n"); Py_Finalize(); return 0; } As written this program works, at least with Python 2.4 on FreeBSD 4.11 and Solaris 9: % ./foo What hath Guido wrought? But if you change LF to CRLF like this: PyRun_SimpleString("print 'What hath'\r\n" "print 'Guido wrought?'\r\n"); then you get this: % ./foo File "<string>", line 1 print 'What hath' ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax I don't know if that behavior is configurable or not. -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster