\r for newline in readlines function

[Bob Gailer]

At 10:37 AM 9/19/2003, Leeds, Mark wrote:

>I did more investigation into my previous problem
>and what happens is that my text file has \r for representing
>a new line instead
>of a \n. is there a way to tell the readlines
>function that the symbol for a newline is \r rather
>than \n ? right now the readlines function reads
>the\r as another item in the list and just puts
>everything into one big list because it
>doesn't find any new line characters.
>  thanks. i'm really stuck because
>i can't read my data right now.

bigList = foo.readlines()
niceList = bigList.split('\r')

Bob Gailer
bgailer at alum.rpi.edu
303 442 2625

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