Can we separate authors with ; instead of \n please?

[Colin D Bennett]

On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:50:05 +1100
James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:

> I wouldn't mind it changing, but bear in mind that you have to disallow 
> the separator from appearing in any of the authors, and I figured that
> "\n" would be much more unlikely from being in someone's name than ";".

You could escape the separator character when specified by the author
value, and just unescape that character when converting from internal
representation of the 'authors' attribute to external representation.
Again it seems like the internal format should be completely hidden
from any users (and by 'users', I mean other Python code that wants to
manipulate the 'authors' attribute, as well as humans).

Regards,
Colin
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