[Tutor] Carriage return

Wayne srilyk at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 05:38:10 CEST 2009


On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Vineet Kothari
<vineet.kothari at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Everyone
>
> I see that python IDLE add ^M as carriage return while programming in
> windows machine. How can I set IDLE not to do so. I don't see any option &
> neither do I see any option to check for carriage return.
>
> Can anyone help me as I use IDLE & I need to remove ^M from the end of
> every line. Though it is not shown while programming but I can see that when
> I run my scripts on debian linux environment & thus get errors.
>
>
That's not an issue with IDLE so much as windows/linux. IIRC, Linux only
uses a newline, while windows uses a CRLF. There's the dos2unix util:

http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/dos2unix1.html

that may help.
-Wayne
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