regular expresson for Unix and Dos Lineendings wanted

[John Zenger]

Franz Steinhaeusler wrote:
> 
> Thank you all for the replies.
> But I still don't have a solution.
> 
> Of course with more lines it is possible, 
> but it would be fine to have a "oneliner".

re.sub(r"\s+[\n\r]+", lambda x: x.expand("\g<0>"). \
     lstrip(" \t\f\v"),text).rstrip()

...where "text" is the unsplit block of text with mysterious line-endings.

But I think your code is a lot easier to read.  :)