Splitting text into lines

[Thomas Nyberg]

On 12/13/2016 08:45 AM, George Trojan - NOAA Federal wrote:
> Ideally I'd like to have code that handles both '\r\r\n' and '\n' as the
> split character.
>
> George
>
Are repeated newlines/carriage returns significant at all? What about 
just using re and just replacing any repeated instances of '\r' or '\n' 
with '\n'? I.e. something like

 >>> # the_string is your file all read in
 >>> import re
 >>> re.sub("[\r\n]+", "\n", the_string)

and then continuing as before (i.e. splitting by newlines, etc.)

Does that work?

Cheers,
Thomas