specify end of line character for readline

[Ian Kelly]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Jason <jason at deadtreepages.com> wrote:
> Is there any way to specify the end of line character to use in file.readline() ?
>
> I would like to use '\r\n' as the end of line and allow either \r or \n by itself within the line.

In Python 3 you can pass the argument newline='\r\n' to the open
function when you open the file.  I don't know of anything comparable
in Python 2.