Liam, "rU" worked like a charm. My previous syntax where the lines were condensing was:
fOpen = file(f, "r")
fRead = fTmp.readlines()
In this instance the size of fRead would not correspond to my line numbers. With fOpen = file(f, "rU") it now does. Thanks :)
On Mar 22, 2005, at 7:15 PM, Liam Clarke wrote:
From the docs -
In addition to the standard fopen() values mode may be 'U' or 'rU'.
If Python is built with universal newline support (the default) the
file is opened as a text file, but lines may be terminated by any of
'\n', the Unix end-of-line convention, '\r', the Macintosh convention
or '\r\n', the Windows convention. All of these external
representations are seen as '\n' by the Python program. If Python is
built without universal newline support mode 'U' is the same as normal
text mode. Note that file objects so opened also have an attribute
called newlines which has a value of None (if no newlines have yet
been seen), '\n', '\r', '\r\n', or a tuple containing all the newline
types seen.
So, try
x = file(myFile, 'rU').readlines()
Or try:
x = file(myFile, 'rU')
for line in x:
#do stuff
Let us know how that goes.
Regards,
Liam Clarke
PS
Worse come to worse, you could always do -
x = file(myFile, 'r').read()
listX = x.split('\r')
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:10:43 -0800, Mike Hall
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Unless I'm mistaken .readlines() is supposed to return a list, where
each index is a line from the file that was handed to it. Well I'm
finding that it's putting more than one line of my file into a single
list entry, and separating them with \r. Surely there's a way to have a
one to one correlation between len(list) and the lines in the file the
list was derived from...?
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