[Tutor] .readlines() condensing multiple lines

[Kent Johnson]

Mike Hall wrote:
> 
> On Mar 23, 2005, at 3:17 AM, Kent Johnson wrote:
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>> Anyway, Mike, it seems clear that your file has line endings in it 
>> which are not consistent with the default for your OS. If reading with 
>> universal newlines doesn't solve the problem, please let us know what 
>> OS you are running under and give more details about the data.
> 
> 
> Kent, reading universal did indeed solve my problem, but for the record 
> I'm on OSX, and was reading from a standard plain text file.

OK good. OSX uses line feed (\n) for the line separator. It sounds like your text file has mixed 
line endings. Mac OS 9 uses carriage return (\r) for line separator, maybe your file has some old 
data mixed in?

Anyway, I'm glad you got it working!

Kent