novice here.
I am trying to read lines from a file, however a single line in a .txt
file has a \n
in the middle somewhere and while trying to read that line with .readline python cuts it in the middle and outputs as two lines.
when I copy and past the line to this window, it shows up as two lines. So i uploaded the file here: https://ufile.io/npt3n
also added screenshot of the file as it shows in txt file.
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f= open("f.txt",mode='r',encoding='utf8')
for i in range(4):
lineText=f.readline()
print(lineText)
f.close()
Python 3 allows you to define what is the newline for a particular file. It is seldom used, because the default universal newlines mode is very tolerant:
When reading input from the stream, if newline is None, universal newlines mode is enabled. Lines in the input can end in '\n', '\r', or '\r\n', and these are translated into '\n' before being returned to the caller.
So here you should made explicit that only '\r\n' is an end of line:
f= open("f.txt",mode='r',encoding='utf8', newline='\r\n')
# use enumerate to show that second line is read as a whole
for i, line in enumerate(fd):
print(i, line)