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OS Agnostic Newline with Python

2 Points, by ianegan 57d ago
The os.linesep variable provides the appropriate newline character(s) for the operating system your Python code is running on. Using os.linesep allows your file operations to be compatible across different systems without manually adjusting newline characters. Take a look:

  import os
  with open('example_cross_platform.txt', 'w') as file:
      file.write(f"First line{os.linesep}")
      file.write(f"Second line{os.linesep}")
      file.write(f"Third line{os.linesep}")

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1 tfed 35d ago
This is interesting but there are many other problems related to this that will creep up on you eventually when working across multiple Operating Systems.
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