Stripping new lines from strings?

[Bill Spears]

CHRIS wrote:

> ajung at suxers.de wrote:
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> From what I understand of Python file I/O, there is no guarantee that
> returned lines all contain new lines characters so, it may clip the last
> line's ending character. And even then, if it is used on a Windows file,
> it would skip the '\r' character.
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Are you sure about this?  I thought the idea of reading a line is that you
got a line, i.e. it has \n on the end.  And I believe that the conversion
from file \r\n to \n is supposed to be automatic.  I guess maybe the last
line in the file could be missing an end of line marker.