Newgene wrote: > I have python2.3 installed on win2k. I noticed that when I open a > dos format text file (eol is '\r\n'), readline() always returns a line > ending with '\n' only, not '\r\n'. While I read the same file on unix, > it returns a line ending with '\r\n' correctly. > This makes me difficult to determine the format of a text file, dos or > unix. > > Is this a bug or intended behavior? If not a bug, then how to > determine the format of a text file?
It's not a bug. On windows, files are opened in text mode by default. Opening a file in binary mode file(name, "rb") will preserve the line endings regardless of platform while opening it in "universal" mode file(name, "rU") will normalize all line endings to "\n". Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
