Readline and record separator

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Jeff a écrit :
> If it's a short file you could slurp the entire file and then split it
> however you like using regular expressions.

My my my...

> I'm not sure if you can alter it,

You can. But it hopefully won't alter your binary-compiled system libs. 
IOW : it's so (obviously) useless that no one even bothered doing 
anything to prevent you from altering it !-)

  but os.linesp
  os.line

> holds the value that
> is accessed when file.readlines() splits lines.  Conceivably, if it
> were set to 'FOO', 'FOO' would be used to determine the EOL string.

Hopefully not. Anyway, the answer is elsewhere (hint: import csv).