On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 05:18:01PM +0200, John Wright wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 05:04:34PM +0200, John Wright wrote: > > Package: python-apt > > Version: 0.7.11.0 > > Severity: wishlist > > Tags: patch > > > > There are times when it would be nice to get the raw data for a tag, > > without any white space stripped off the front. For example, see > > #538376, where we would like to know if the data started with a newline. > > > > I have attached a patch that adds a FindRaw method to TagSection.
I'll add it as "find_raw()" in 0.7.92 (aka 0.8 Beta 1), which should hit experimental a few days after the release of apt 0.7.22 (which should happen within the next weeks). > --- a/python/tag.cc > +++ b/python/tag.cc > + char *Default = 0; > + if (PyArg_ParseTuple(Args,"s|z",&Name,&Default) == 0) > + return 0; By the way, Default should just be any Python object. There's no need to restrict the user from passing what he wants to. -- Julian Andres Klode - Free Software Developer Debian Developer - Contributing Member of SPI Ubuntu Member - Fellow of FSFE Website: http://jak-linux.org/ XMPP: juli...@jabber.org Debian: http://www.debian.org/ SPI: http://www.spi-inc.org/ Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/ FSFE: http://www.fsfe.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org