From: gene.tani@...
Date: 2004-12-23T10:36:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Inconsistency with IO.readlines

Hmm, don't know OS9 file format, but couldn't  you set $/
(==$INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR) to last character in the file, something
like that?)  Don't think there''s anything like Python universal
newlines (open file in mode "U").

Justin Rudd wrote:
> I've noticed a slight inconsistancy with IO.readlines depending on
the
> line ending.  If the line ending is PC (\r\n) or Unix (\n) then it
> works fine no matter the platform.  But if the line ending is Mac
> (\r), IO.readlines returns one line no matter how many lines it is
> supposed to be.
>
> Maybe this isn't such a big deal anymore since Mac OS X uses Unix
line
> endings, but believe it or not I've got files coming in from Mac OS 9
> users.
>
> Anyone else seen this?  I'm using a build built from the last stable
> snapshot under Cygwin.
> 
> -- 
> Justin Rudd
> http://seagecko.org/thoughts/