[Tutor] Re: .....str.count and str.split/solved

[Danny Yoo]

On Fri, 7 May 2004, Tim Johnson wrote:

> This was caused by not taking into consideration the differences in line
> enders between linux,windows and Mac, and compounded by processing on
> linux what is produced in windows.
>
> I need to whip up a read_lines routine for python that's as predicatable
> as the read/lines routine in rebol.


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Hi Tim,


Ah!  You probably don't need to do anything too special.  If you open the
file in "universal newline" mode, then Python will automagically handle
platform-specific newline stuff.  See:

    http://www.python.org/doc/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-25

Look at the 'U' mode for universal newlines --- I think it should do what
you want.


Hope this helps!