Retaining Unix EOL when reading/writing in windows

[Nick Wain]

Hello All,

I'm relatively new to PYTHON, using PYTHON 2.4 on Windows XP. I'm having a 
problem as below. I've asked some other people in my office who are more 
experienced in PYTHON, but they can't help.

I have a number of files created in UNIX that have the UNIX end of line 
(EOL) character.

I want to read these files in python, modify some lines, and then write them 
to a new file. This appears to work fine, however I find that the output 
files have Windows EOL characters. This is a pain, as I want to compare the 
before and after files to see if my changes are correct.

I've simplified my code down to something that just reads a file and then 
writes it to a different file. I'm currently doing this with a bit of code 
that looks something like this:

filename = "test.lwc"
outfile = open("test_out.lwc", 'w' )
readfile = open(filename,'r').readlines()

for line in readfile:
    outfile.write(line)
outfile.close()

Is there a way I can do this, but retain the UNIX EOL characters?

Cheers,
Nick

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