Alex Martelli wrote: > Fuzzyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 > > Open the file with 'rU' mode, and check the file object's newline > attribute. >
Ha, so long as it works with Python 2.2, that makes things a bit easier. Rats, I liked that snippet of code (I'm a great fan of list comprehensions). :-) > > My worry is that if '\n' *doesn't* signify a line break on the Mac, > > It does, since a few years, since MacOSX is version of Unix to all > practical intents and purposes. > I wondered if that might be the case. I think I've worried about this more than enough now. Thanks Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml > > Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
