Ed Keith
3/3/2010 9:43:00 PM
--- On Wed, 3/3/10, David Robinow <drobinow@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: David Robinow <drobinow@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Docstrings considered too complicated
> To: python-list@python.org
> Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 2:54 PM
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Ed
> Keith <e_d_k@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > --- On Wed, 3/3/10, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> >
> >> They needed a way to tell where the end of the
> information
> >> was. Why
> >> they used ^Z (SUB - Substitute) instead of ^C (ETX
> - End of
> >> TeXt) or
> >> even ^D (EOT - End Of Transmission) is anyone's
> guess.
> >
> > That has always puzzled me to. ETX and EOT were well
> established, why no use one of them? I'd love to know what
> they were thinking.
>
> There were numerous incompatible and primitive transfer
> protocols in
> those days. They probably wanted to pick something that was
> NOT well
> established so it would pass through without, for example,
> causing End
> Of Transmission.
That makes a lot of sense.
-EdK
Ed Keith
e_d_k@yahoo.com
Blog: edkeith.blogspot.com