Re: plpython function problem workaround

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 07:33 -0600, David wrote:

> [about the line-termination problem in plpython]

> I'd like to insert one note here. While I'm not particularly familiar
> with either perl or python, when I encountered the referred-to thread
> regarding Windows/Unix newline incompatibilities in Python, I ran some
> tests on my Linux system. I wrote some very simple scripts in Perl and
> Python and tested them. They ran OK when I saved them in native Linux
> newlines, they ran, but if I saved them in DOS mode (vim), neither the
> Python nor the Perl scripts would run.

actually, perl scripts with \r\n line endings will run just fine in
unix/linux. what you might have been experiencing, is the fact that the
unix shell is expecting \n lineendings, and the #! line could have been
failing to run the perl executable.

gnari