Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Aug 6 10:51:29 CEST 2009

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M.-A. Lemburg <mal <at> egenix.com> writes:
> 
> Please file a bug report for this. f.readlines() (or rather
> the io layer) should be using Py_UNICODE_ISLINEBREAK(ch)
> for detecting line break characters.

Actually, no. It has been designed from the start to only recognize the
"standard" line break representations found in common formats/protocols (CR, LF
and CR+LF).
People wanting to split on arbitrary unicode line breaks should use
str.splitlines().

Regards

Antoine.

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