John Machin wrote:
On 26/01/2009 10:34 AM, Tim Chase wrote:
I believe that using the formulaic "for line in file(FILENAME)"
iteration guarantees that each "line" will have at most only one '\n'
and it will be at the end (again, a malformed text-file with no
terminal '\n' may cause it to be absent from the last line)
It seems that you are right -- not that I can find such a guarantee
written anywhere. I had armchair-philosophised that writing
"foo\n\r\nbar\r\n" to a file in binary mode and reading it on Windows in
text mode would be strict and report the first line as "foo\n\n"; I was
wrong.
Here's how I'd do it:
with open('deheap/deheap.py', 'rU') as source:
for line in source:
print line.rstrip() # Avoid trailing spaces as well.
This should handle \n, \r\n, and \n\r lines.
--Scott David Daniels
scott.dani...@acm.org
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