Actually universal newline support seems to be covered by the following PEP and is present in the version of Python(2.3) I am running. http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0278.txt I would tend to agree with Hong Yuan that the problem exists in plpythonu's handling of newlines. On Tuesday 18 January 2005 05:19 am, Tom Lane wrote: > Michael Fuhr <mike@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > 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." > > Seems like Guido has missed a bet here: namely the case of a script > generated on one platform and fed to an interpreter running on another. > If I were designing it, I would say that any Python interpreter should > take all three variants no matter which platform the interpreter itself > is sitting on. Or is cross-platform support not a Python goal? > > In short, any bug report on this ought to go to the Python project. > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings -- Adrian Klaver aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend