Re: Text file with mixed end-of-line terminations
You can use f.read() to read the entire file's contents into a string, providing the file isn't huge. Then, split on \r and replace \n when found. A simple test: input_data = abc\rdef\rghi\r\njkl\r\nmno\r\n first_split = input_data.split(\r) for rec in first_split: rec = rec.replace(\n, ) print rec -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Text file with mixed end-of-line terminations
I have a text file that uses both '\r' and '\r\n' end-of-line terminations. The '\r' terminates the first 25 lines or so, the remainder is termiated with '\r\n' Reading this file like this: for line in open(filename,'r'): line= #Do whatever needs doing... The first line read is actually a string consiting of the first 25 lines. The readline() method does the same thing. Is there a way to make it read one line at a time, regardless of the line termination? By the way, the newlines attribute reports None after reading a few lines. I tried on Linux and Windows. I use the standard binaries as distributed. Thanks in advance, Alex van der Spek -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Text file with mixed end-of-line terminations
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Alex van der Spek zd...@xs4all.nl wrote: I have a text file that uses both '\r' and '\r\n' end-of-line terminations. The '\r' terminates the first 25 lines or so, the remainder is termiated with '\r\n' snip Is there a way to make it read one line at a time, regardless of the line termination? Universal Newline Support http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0278/ http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#open (Modes involving U) Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
