Convert \r text to \n so readlines() works as intended

Question

In Python, you can read a file and load its lines into a list by using

f = open(\'file.txt\',\'r\')
lines = f.readlines()

Each individual l

Answer 1

If it's a concern, open in binary format and convert with this code:

from __future__ import with_statement

with open(filename, "rb") as f:
    s = f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n').replace('\r', '\n')
    lines = s.split('\n')

Answer 2

f = open('file.txt','rU')

This opens the file with Python's universal newline support and \r is treated as an end-of-line.