Question

Would this work on all platforms? i know windows does \r\n, and remember hearing mac does \r while linux did \n. I ran this code on windows so it seems fine, but do any of you know if its cross platform?

while 1:     line = f.readline()     if line == '':         break     line = line[:-1]     print '\'' + line + '\'' 

Answer 1

First of all, there is universal newline support

Second: just use line.strip(). Use line.rstrip('\r\n'), if you want to preserve any whitespace at the beginning or end of the line.

Oh, and

print ''%s'' % line 

or at least

print ''' + line + ''' 

might look a bit nicer.

You can iterate over the lines in a file like this (this will not break on empty lines in the middle of the file like your code):

for line in f:     print ''' + line.strip('\r\n') + ''' 

If your input file is short enough, you can use the fact that str.splitlines throws away the line endings by default:

with open('input.txt', 'rU') as f:     for line in f.read().splitlines():         print ''%s'' % line