Idiomatic portable way to strip line endings?

[Guido van Rossum]

Chris Barker <chrishbarker at attbi.com> writes:

> To deal with all these problems (which become perhaps more common on
> Mac OS-X), there was discussion on python-dev about creating a
> "Universal Text File" type that would read files with any mixed
> combination of *nix, DOS and Mac line endings (and maybe do
> something smart on VMS as well). The goal would be able to have it
> work with Python code as well as files opened with open(), and also
> on pipes and other text streams.
> 
> I know Guido, Jack Jansen and I had some discussion about it, and I
> think Jack put a little work into it, but I'm not sure where it
> sits.

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