Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> writes: > To be strict -- a text file has <some> system defined means of marking > line endings. UNIX/Linux uses just a <LF> character; Windows uses the pair > <CR><LF>. TRS-DOS used just <CR> for end of line. Some operating systems > may have used count-delimited formats (and then there is the VMS FORTRAN > segmented records with start and end segment bits).
Another possibility would be fixed-length records. The ANSI C standard permits a maximum line length (no less than 254) and for trailing spaces to be ignored. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
