Michael Castleton wrote:
> When I open a csv or txt file with:
>
> infile = open(sys.argv[1],'rb').readlines()
> or
> infile = open(sys.argv[1],'rb').read()
>
> and then look at the first few lines of the file there is a carriage return
> +
> line feed at the end of each line - \r\n
> This is fine and somewhat expected. My problem comes from then writing
> infile out to a new file with:
>
> outfile = open(sys.argv[2],'w')
> outfile.writelines(infile)
> outfile.close()
>
> at which point an additional carriage return is inserted to the end of each
> line - \r\r\n
Maybe because you're reading the file as binary ('rb') but writing it as
text ('w')::
>>> open('temp.txt', 'w').write('hello\r\n')
>>> open('temp.txt', 'rb').read()
'hello\r\r\n'
>>> open('temp.txt', 'wb').write('hello\r\n')
>>> open('temp.txt', 'rb').read()
'hello\r\n'
>>> open('temp.txt', 'w').write('hello\r\n')
>>> open('temp.txt', 'r').read()
'hello\r\n'
Looks like if you match your writes and reads everything works out fine.
STeVe
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