Close SF patch 523944: importing modules with foreign newlines.
Didn't use the patch, because universal newlines support made it easy.
It might be worth fixing the actual problem in the 2.2 maintenance
branch, in which case the patch is still needed.
diff --git a/Lib/imputil.py b/Lib/imputil.py
index 5d462f1..04111dc 100644
--- a/Lib/imputil.py
+++ b/Lib/imputil.py
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@
saved back to the filesystem for future imports. The source file's
modification timestamp must be provided as a Long value.
"""
- codestring = open(pathname, 'r').read()
+ codestring = open(pathname, 'rU').read()
if codestring and codestring[-1] != '\n':
codestring = codestring + '\n'
code = __builtin__.compile(codestring, pathname, 'exec')