[Distutils] Reading in Universal Newline mode with pkg_resources

[cool-RR]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:52 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

> At 08:37 PM 2/8/2011 +0200, cool-RR wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm accessing a text file using `pkg_resources`. I want to read it in
>> universal newline mode, i.e. to read newlines as '\n' regardless whether
>> they're actually '\r\n'. How do I do this?
>>
>
> Perhaps:
>
>  StringIO(resource_string('whatever','resource').replace('\r\n','\n'))
>
> ?
>
> Or, this might be better, since I believe splitlines uses a true Universal
> Newline approach:
>
>  StringIO('\n'.join(resource_string('whatever','resource').splitlines()))
>

Do you think that source_string.replace('\r', '') would work?



> The pkg_resources APIs are binary, rather than text, so you have to do the
> necessary munging yourself, unless you use resource_filename() and open the
> file directly (which has its own issues).
>

Maybe an option for text-mode reading should be added?


Ram.
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