Idiomatic portable way to strip line endings?

[Skip Montanaro]

    John> Huh? This works fine on Windows. The C library (which is what
    John> Python is based on, after all) is defined to convert the operating
    John> system dependent line end sequence to '\n' on input, and back on
    John> output.

Even if you get the file from an operating system that uses another line
ending convention?

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