Does Python mess with CRLFs?

John Machin sjmachin at lexicon.net
Wed Nov 12 06:38:56 EST 2008


On Nov 12, 10:04 pm, Gilles Ganault <nos... at nospam.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm stuck at understanding why Python can't extract some bit from an
> HTML file using regexes, although I can find it just fine with
> UltraEdit.
>
> I wonder if Python rewrites CRLFs when reading a text file with
> open/read?

Don't wonder; do some very elementary debugging and find out for
yourself.

> Here's the code:
> ==========
> f = open("content.html", "r")
> content = f.read()
> f.close()

Consider inserting
   print repr(content)
here.




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