Cursed newlines and readline()

[Skip Montanaro]

    Edward> According to one of Leo's Linux users, the Python's readline()
    Edward> routine on Linux delivers "\r\n" line end strings verbatim,
    Edward> while the windows versions force the string to use the Unix
    Edward> convention of using only "\n". 

In 2.3 you can open files with the "U" flag and get "universal newline"
support: 

% python
Python 2.3a0 (#86, Sep  4 2002, 21:13:00) 
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Mandrake Linux 8.1 2.96-0.62mdk)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> f = open("crlf.txt")
>>> line = f.readline()
>>> line
'This is an example of what I have come to call the "cursed newline" problem,\r\n'
>>> f = open("crlf.txt", "rU")
>>> line = f.readline()
>>> line
'This is an example of what I have come to call the "cursed newline" problem,\n'

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