On 2021-07-13 at 14:11:15 -0000, sandhoners...@gmail.com wrote: > Maybe (to be consistent with other functions like print), end= since > that would allow even custom line endings
As it stands, writelines is consistent with readlines. Both preserve newlines. All else being equal, the following copies a file: input_file = open(input_pathname, 'r') output_file = open(output_pathname, 'w') lines = input_file.readlines() output_file.writelines(lines) input_file.close() output_file.close() _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/PZVKOJSCDQSCSKGFYU2AX7KAWLZ373LC/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/