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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions
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On 2015-11-03, Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> wrote:

[re. iterating over lines in a file]

> I can't think of more than 1-2 times in my last 10+ years of
> Pythoning that I've actually had potential use for the newlines,

If you can think of 1-2 times when you've been interating over the
lines in a file and wanted to see the EOL markers, then that's 1-2
times more than I've ever wanted to see them since I started using
Python 16 years ago...

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