Linux endline

[Chris Liechti]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote in news:gJKk8.25432
$n4.4999467 at newsc.telia.net:
> Fabien Hénon wrote:
>> 1° When I use it under Linux I would like to get rid of the \r 
which
>> appears at the end of each line. ( I know there is a difference of
>> endline between Windows, Mac and Linux). 
> 
> how about
> 
> if line.endswith("\r\n"):
>     # deal with DOS file ending
>     line = line[:-2] + "\n"
> self.text.insert(END, line)

or, if you don't care about  having whitespaces after the last 
printable character you can also call line = rstrip(line).

i even use string.strip() in an application where no leading or 
trainling whitespaces are needed.

chris

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