[Pythonmac-SIG] Reading big text files
Joseph J. Strout
joe@strout.net
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 10:12:04 -0700
>> if x[:9] == "%%Pages: ":
>> print "Found", x[9:-1], "pages!"
Note that you don't need the -1 here, the standard idiom would be x[9:].
>> Anyone an idea how I can handle this problem. I also have some problems with
>> the different line-ending style from the different platforms. How should I
>> handle this??
What sort of problems? Mac Python does line ending conversion for you
automagically when you open a file in text mode, at least if you use
readline(). Anyway, applying a string.strip() to each line certainly does
the trick.
Cheers,
-- Joe
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