\r\n problem in cgi module?

[Peter Hansen]

Jane Austine wrote:

> I'm wrote a cgi script which saves some data in a file, which is
> POSTed from a HTML page.
> 
> The HTML page includes:
> 
> <textarea name="text" cols="80" rows="5"></textarea>
> 
> Then I extract the "text" as such:
> 
> f=cgi.FieldStorage()
> text=f['text'].value
> 
> The surprise is "text" contains "\r\n" instead of "\n", when running
> on windows.
> 
> Why does this happen, and what am I supposed to do? Isn't cgi module
> supposed to provide "universal_new_line"?

And the shortest solution for you is

  text = f['text'].value.replace('\r\n', '\n')

-Peter