Detecting line endings

[Fuzzyman]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> Fuzzyman <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>    ...
> > I can't open with a codec unless an encoding is explicitly supplied.  I
> > still want to detect UTF16 even if the encoding isn't specified.
> >
> > As I said, I ought to test this... Without metadata I wonder how Python
> > determines it ?
>
> It doesn't.  Python doesn't even try to guess: nor would any other
> sensible programming language.
>

Right, so opening in "rU" mode and testing the 'newline' attribute
*won't* work for UTF16 encoded files. (Which was what I was asking.)

I'll have to read, determine encoding, decode, then *either* use my
code to determine line endings *or* use ``splitlines(True)``.

All the best,

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

> 
> Alex