ascii to unicode line endings

[Jerry Hill]

On 2 May 2007 09:19:25 -0700, fidtz at clara.co.uk <fidtz at clara.co.uk> wrote:
> The code:
>
> import codecs
>
> udlASCII = file("c:\\temp\\CSVDB.udl",'r')
> udlUNI = codecs.open("c:\\temp\\CSVDB2.udl",'w',"utf_16")
> udlUNI.write(udlASCII.read())
> udlUNI.close()
> udlASCII.close()
>
> This doesn't seem to generate the correct line endings. Instead of
> converting 0x0D/0x0A to 0x0D/0x00/0x0A/0x00, it leaves it as  0x0D/
> 0x0A

That code (using my own local files, of course) basically works for me.

If I open my input file with mode 'r', as you did above, my '\r\n'
pairs get transformed to '\n' when I read them in and are written to
my output file as 0x00 0x0A.  If I open the input file in binary mode
'rb' then my output file shows the expected sequence of 0x00 0x0D 0x00
0x0A.

Perhaps there's a quirk of your version of python or your platform?  I'm running
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32

-- 
Jerry