Detecting line endings

[Fuzzyman]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> Fuzzyman <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>    ...
> > > Open the file with 'rU' mode, and check the file object's newline
> > > attribute.
> >
> > Do you know if this works for multi-byte encodings ? Do files have
>
> You mean when you open them with the codecs module?
>

No, if I open a UTF16 encoded file in universal mode - will it still
have the correct lineending attribute ?

I can't open with a codec unless an encoding is explicitly supplied.  I
still want to detect UTF16 even if the encoding isn't specified.

As I said, I ought to test this... Without metadata I wonder how Python
determines it ?

All the best,

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml

> > metadata associated with them showing the line-ending in use ?
>
> Not in the filesystems I'm familiar with (they did use to, in
> filesystems used on VMS and other ancient OSs, but that was a very long
> time ago).
> 
> 
> Alex