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On 2014-01-31 15:04, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <mailman.6209.1391180106.18130.python-list@python.org>,
>   Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 31/01/2014 10:17, wxjmfauth@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Is the double line spacing that you still use despite being asked not to
>> ASCII or unicode?
>
> It's not actually double line spacing.  It's single spaced using UNICODE
> DOUBLE COMBINING LINEFEED WITH QUOTE MARKER as line terminators.

 >>> len('\n\n>')
3

Clearly, the FSR is broken beyond repair.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco