[Pythonmac-SIG] Line endings and readline()

[Chris Barker]

Andrew Watson wrote:
> Is there some easy way of convincing python to change what it expects as the
> end-of-line character, to deal with this sort of crodd-platform problem?

No, and I wish there was.

Your options are to translate the file first (the dos2unix, and unix2dos
utilities also have a mac2unix option), or to read it in as a binary
file, and do your translation in your code:

data = string.split(open(filename,'rb').read(),'\r')

Or something like that.

-Chris




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