Re: [Configobj-develop] [python] No newline at the end of file

[Frederik E. <fre...@we...>]

Am Dienstag, den 18.12.2007, 16:28 +0000 schrieb Michael Foord:
> Well - there are easy ways to add newlines to files. :-)

Right, I just did it like that. :-) I was just wondering if there was a
switch in configobj that I might have missed.

> Newline handling was actually quite tricky as ConfigObj is used to 
> roundtrip files. I also prefer files terminated with a newline but 
> wasn't aware it was part of the POSIX spec.

Well, I wouldn't swear it is, but I read this in a discussion on a 
different list, and I think these definitions back up this oppinion:

Text file
        A file that contains characters organized into one or more
        lines. [...]
Line
        A sequence of zero or more non- <newline>s plus a terminating
        <newline>.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html

> Unless there are any objections I will add code to ensure that files are 
> newline terminated. A side effect is that roundtripped files may gain a 
> newline. Avoiding this would mean storing extra state when reading files 
> and I don't *intend* to jump through those hoops.

Currently, there is the situation that files might loose a newline. So I
think that it's not worse to have files gain a newline. And I don't
think that applications will have problems with files that end with a
newline, so I'd totally agree that it's not worth the hassle to keep
that information.

Frederik