Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.007 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:skip:c 10': 0.07; 'nntp': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'terry': 0.09; 'aug': 0.13; 'inserting': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'subject:Filter': 0.16; 'subject:versus': 0.16; 'replacing': 0.17; 'appears': 0.18; 'produces': 0.22; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'lines': 0.28; '(since': 0.29; 'contrast,': 0.29; 'quoting': 0.29; 'fri,': 0.30; 'quotes': 0.33; 'url:home': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'text': 0.34; 'received:org': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'subject: (': 0.36; 'turn': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'google': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'agent': 0.64; 'hypothesis': 0.84; 'dennis': 0.91; 'outgoing': 0.91; 'received:108': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???) Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:29:00 -0400 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < References: <502A865E.4030504@sequans.com> <960e4798-745b-4e9b-aedb-14aae986d086@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-108-79-217-152.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 18 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1345832961 news.xs4all.nl 6932 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:33891 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:27817 On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:04:54 -0400, Terry Reedy declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > Your mail agent in inserting blank lines in quotes -- google? > See if you can turn that off. > It appears to be a change Google made in the last month or two... My hypothesis is that they are replacing hard EOL found in inbound NNTP with an HTML

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with a pair of NNTP line endings. In contrast, text composed on Google is coming in as long single lines (since quoting said text in a response produces on a ">" at the start of the paragraph. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/