File Object behavior

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Michael Castleton a écrit :
> When I open a csv or txt file with:
> 
> infile = open(sys.argv[1],'rb').readlines()
> or 
> infile = open(sys.argv[1],'rb').read()
> 
> and then look at the first few lines of the file there is a carriage return
> + 
> line feed at the end of each line - \r\n

Is there any reason you open your text files in binary mode ?

Unless you're using the csv module (which requires such a mode - but 
then you don't care since you're not working with the raw data 
yourself), you should consider opening your files in text mode. This 
should solve your problem (if not, then you have a problem with 
universal newlines support in your Python install).

HTH