Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> added the comment: Either use mode 'U' or the io module if you want to match 3.x.
$ python Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Jun 12 2010, 17:07:01) [GCC 4.3.4 20090804 (release) 1] on cygwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> open('testFile').readlines() ['# blaaaaa\r#\r\t# blaaaaaaaa\r\t#\r\t#\r#blaaa\t\r'] >>> open('testFile', 'U').readlines() ['# blaaaaa\n', '#\n', '\t# blaaaaaaaa\n', '\t#\n', '\t#\n', '#blaaa\t\n'] >>> import io >>> io.open('testFile').readlines() [u'# blaaaaa\n', u'#\n', u'\t# blaaaaaaaa\n', u'\t#\n', u'\t#\n', u'#blaaa\t\n'] ---------- nosy: +eric.smith resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10797> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com