Does Python csv writer always use DOS end-of-line characters?
You can give your writer instance a custom lineterminator argument in the constructor: writer = csv.writer(f, lineterminator=”\n”)
line-endings
Hiding ^M in Emacs
(defun remove-dos-eol () “Do not show ^M in files containing mixed UNIX and DOS line endings.” (interactive) (setq buffer-display-table (make-display-table)) (aset buffer-display-table ?\^M [])) Solution by Johan Bockgård. I found it here.
How can I redirect PowerShell output when run from Task Scheduler?
I use the transcript feature to help with this. Just include it in your code and it outputs all (would be) screen content to a log file. Start-Transcript -path $LogFile -append <Body of the script> Stop-Transcript
How do I force unix (LF) line endings in Visual Studio (Express) 2008?
There’a an add-in for Visual Studio 2008 that converts the end of line format when a file is saved. You can download it here: http://grebulon.com/software/stripem.php
What is the meaning of ^M in ‘git diff’?
^M represents carriage return. This diff means something removed a Unicode BOM from the beginning of the line and added a CR at the end. The ^ symbol stands for Control, so ^M means Ctrl+M. To get from that to the actual ASCII character code, you take the base character and flip bit 6 (i.e. … Read more
How can I write a ESLint rule for “linebreak-style”, changing depending on Windows or Unix?
I spent time trying to find how to shut off the linkbreak-style and lost it due to reverting some of my code I thought others my like to have this as well. In the .eslintrc file you can also set linebreak-style to 0 which shuts off the linebreak feature: module.exports = { extends: ‘google’, quotes: … Read more
gVim showing carriage return (^M) even when file mode is explicitly DOS
This happens when you have a mixture of Windows line endings and Unix ones. If you have 100 lines, 99 are \r\n and one is \n, you’ll see 99 ^M characters. The fix is to find that one line and replace it. Or run dos2unix on the file. You can replace the Windows line endings … Read more
What’s a quick one-liner to remove empty lines from a python string?
How about: text = os.linesep.join([s for s in text.splitlines() if s]) where text is the string with the possible extraneous lines?
Python get proper line ending
If you are operating on a file that you opened in text mode, then you are correct that line breaks all show up as ‘\n‘. Otherwise, you are looking for os.linesep . From http://docs.python.org/library/os.html: os.linesep The string used to separate (or, rather, terminate) lines on the current platform. This may be a single character, such … Read more
Configure Visual Studio to use UNIX line endings
Warning: This solution no longer works for Visual Studio 2017 and later. Instead, both of the answers by jcox and Munther Jaber are needed. I have combined them into one answer. As OP states “File > Advanced Save Options”, select Unix Line Endings. This will only affect new files that are created. Fixing any that … Read more