readline() with arbitrary end of lines

[Rainer Deyke]

"Javier Bezos" <see.below at no.spam.es> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I'm using MacPython 1.5.2c1 to read several files with
> the help of readline(). However, the files to be read can
> have either Mac or Unix end of lines and it seems that only
> Mac end of lines are recognized; changing linesep has no
> effect at all.

Quick hack: open file in binary mode.

a = open("test.txt", "rb")

Of course that means that you can no longer read Mac files.

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