Removing ^M

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

In article <mailman.1023546912.19781.python-list at python.org>, Michael
Hall wrote:
>
>I am trying remove ^M characters (some kind of newline character) from an
>HTML file. I've tried all sorts of string.replace and sed possibilities
>but the
>things just won't go away. Does anyone have a way of removing such
>characters?

If you happen to run on a Windows system (including Cygwin) you could
simply do this:

  open('outfile', 'wb').write(open('infile').read())

Python will then take care of the translation for you.

>TIA 
>
>Mick

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