Alex Martelli wrote: > Fuzzyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I'm trying to detect line endings used in text files. I *might* be > > decoding the files into unicode first (which may be encoded using > > Open the file with 'rU' mode, and check the file object's newline > attribute. >
Do you know if this works for multi-byte encodings ? Do files have metadata associated with them showing the line-ending in use ? I suppose I could test this... All the best, Fuzzy > > My worry is that if '\n' *doesn't* signify a line break on the Mac, > > It does, since a few years, since MacOSX is version of Unix to all > practical intents and purposes. > > > Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
