Hello all, I'm trying to detect line endings used in text files. I *might* be decoding the files into unicode first (which may be encoded using multi-byte encodings) - which is why I'm not letting Python handle the line endings.
Is the following safe and sane : text = open('test.txt', 'rb').read() if encoding: text = text.decode(encoding) ending = '\n' # default if '\r\n' in text: text = text.replace('\r\n', '\n') ending = '\r\n' elif '\n' in text: ending = '\n' elif '\r' in text: text = text.replace('\r', '\n') ending = '\r' My worry is that if '\n' *doesn't* signify a line break on the Mac, then it may exist in the body of the text - and trigger ``ending = '\n'`` prematurely ? All the best, Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list