Paul> ... that files can have *either* bare \n, *or* the combination Paul> \r\n, to delimit lines.
As someone else pointed out, \r needs to be supported as well. Many Mac applications (Excel comes to mind) still emit text files with \r as the line terminator. Skip _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com