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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:18:24 +1100
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
> But to convert a DOS text file (with lines ending cr/lf) into a Unix text
> file (with lines ending lf)  would be a dozen lines, shrinkable to 3 with
> lots of experience.  (And I'd probably prefer the dozen line version)

Code golf!

open("outfile","wb").write(open("infile","rb").read().replace("\r",""))

No particular reason, and I'd probably prefer a 3-6 line version of
it, but it's fun to do it as one :)

ChrisA