Detecting line endings

[Fuzzyman]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> Fuzzyman <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm trying to detect line endings used in text files. I *might* be
> > decoding the files into unicode first (which may be encoded using
>
> Open the file with 'rU' mode, and check the file object's newline
> attribute.
>

Ha, so long as it works with Python 2.2, that makes things a bit
easier.

Rats, I liked that snippet of code (I'm a great fan of list
comprehensions).   :-)

> > My worry is that if '\n' *doesn't* signify a line break on the Mac,
>
> It does, since a few years, since MacOSX is version of Unix to all
> practical intents and purposes.
>

I wondered if that might be the case. I think I've worried about this
more than enough now.

Thanks

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml

> 
> Alex