Angus Rodgers wrote: > Yes, I understood that, and it's logical, but what was worrying me > was how to understand the cross-platform behaviour of Python with > regard to the different representation of text files in Windows > and Unix-like OSs. (I remember getting all in a tizzy about this
If you are concerned about line endings open the file in universal newline mode: f = open(filename, "rU") """ In addition to the standard fopen values mode may be 'U' or 'rU'. Python is usually built with universal newline support; supplying 'U' opens the file as a text file, but lines may be terminated by any of the following: the Unix end-of-line convention '\n', the Macintosh convention '\r', or the Windows convention '\r\n'. All of these external representations are seen as '\n' by the Python program. If Python is built without universal newline support a mode with 'U' is the same as normal text mode. Note that file objects so opened also have an attribute called newlines which has a value of None (if no newlines have yet been seen), '\n', '\r', '\r\n', or a tuple containing all the newline types seen. """ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
