Ant wrote:
> Is it worth me submitting a patch to fileinput which can take an
> optional write mode parameter?
absolutely.
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John Machin wrote:
> Ant wrote:
...
> > filehandle.write("xxx \n")
> > filehandle.write("xxx \x0a")
> >
> > and all of these give me a nice windows-style crlf!
> >
> > Surely there must be a way to do this ...
>
> and there is: open your output file in binary mode; then it won't
> convert every \
Ant wrote:
> Larry Bates wrote:
>
> > Ant wrote:
> ...
> > > Is there any way of doing this without having to post-process the file
> > > in binary mode (a-la the crlf.py script)
> ...
> > You can write to a new file and create your own line endings.
> > When done, delete the original file and ren
Ant wrote:
> How can I create my own line endings? I've tried setting os.linesep =
> "\n", (and to \x0a). I've tried things like:
>
> print "xxx yyy \n",
> print "xxx uuu \x0a",
> filehandle.write("xxx \n")
> filehandle.write("xxx \x0a")
>
> and all of these give me a nice windows-style crlf!
>
Larry Bates wrote:
> Ant wrote:
...
> > Is there any way of doing this without having to post-process the file
> > in binary mode (a-la the crlf.py script)
...
> You can write to a new file and create your own line endings.
> When done, delete the original file and rename the output file.
How ca
Ant wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a problem here which has me stumped. I've got a python script
> which does some text processing on some files and writes it back out to
> the same file using the fileinput module with inplace set to True.
>
> The script needs to run from Windows, but the files ne
