[ZPT] Re: Trailing newline added by TALInterpreter.__call__()

[Alexander Limi]

On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:19:13 -0500, Evan Simpson <evan at 4-am.com> wrote:

> Fred Drake wrote:
>> The TALInterpreter class is very careful to add a trailing newline at  
>> the end of a rendering if there isn't one already present.  This  
>> vaguely feels like something that was done to make the user experiance  
>> nicer for someone working with the templates in an editor, but there's  
>> no comment explaining it in the code.
>
> Nope, it was done because of this:
>
>  >>> exec('''if 1:\n  print 1''')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>    File "<string>", line 2
>      print 1
>           ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>  >>> exec('''if 1:\n  print 1\n''')
> 1
>
> This was fixed in Python 2.3, apparently, so the code can probably be  
> removed.

I buy a beer for the one that fixes this. It's the single most annoying  
thing with ZPT right now (and lack of DOCTYPE suppport is next on the list  
:).

Pretty please? :)

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