Idiomatic portable way to strip line endings?

[Emile van Sebille]

"Tim Hammerquist" <tim at vegeta.ath.cx> wrote in message
news:slrna1pbik.6jf.tim at vegeta.ath.cx...
> I've been trying to figure out the canonical way to strip the line
> endings from a text file.
>
> In general, I can use:
>
>     line = line[:-1]
> or
>     del line[-1:]
>
> to strip the last character off the line, but this only works on
> operating systems that have a one-byte line separator like Unix/Linux
> ('\n').  The Win32 line separator is 2-bytes ('\r\n'), so this
> solution is not portable.
>


How about:

line.endswith(os.linesep)

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Emile van Sebille
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