Printing unix Line endings from Windows.

Larry Bates larry.bates at websafe.com
Mon Dec 4 12:20:42 EST 2006


Ant wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a problem here which has me stumped. I've got a python script
> which does some text processing on some files and writes it back out to
> the same file using the fileinput module with inplace set to True.
> 
> The script needs to run from Windows, but the files need to be written
> with Unix line endings.
> 
> Is there any way of doing this without having to post-process the file
> in binary mode (a-la the crlf.py script)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
You can write to a new file and create your own line endings.
When done, delete the original file and rename the output file.

-Larry



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