Do you mean somthing like this?
>>> f = open("file.txt")
>>> w = open('outfile.txt', 'w')
>>> for line in f.split('\n'):
... w.write(line)
...
>>> w.close()
>>> '\n' in open('/home/wandleg/outfile.txt').read()
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