Reading newlines from a text file

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> Also, I notice that you have two backslashes before each n in
> "\\ntoerichte\\nlogik\\nboeser\\nkobold\n". Why is there a need for 2
> backslashes -would not one have done the trick?

Two backslashes escape the bacslash - otherwise the text in tmp.txt would
have contained _newlines_, not the \n-escape sequence you wanted. Test
this:

print "foo\nbar"
foo
bar
print "foo\\nbar"
foo\nbar

And the encoding argument is in codecs.open, not in builtin open - so you'll
find it documented in the codecs-module.

-- 
Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch