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IDLE on Windows and Linux

Gerhard Häring gerhard.haering at gmx.de
Tue Dec 31 13:03:53 EST 2002 
Roger wrote:
> Oliver Vecernik wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> If I write some python code with IDLE on Windows files are saved with
>> CR/LF. If I open them on Linux I can see the \r on every line and I
>> cannot execute such files directly.
>>
>> Is there a simple solution for this?
>>
>> The second question is concerning key bindings. Is it possible to change
>> them for Windows to the same bindings as for Linux?
>>
> Your Linux distribution may have a copy of dos2unix.  You can use that 
> to remove the extra DOS line end characters.  Another program, unix2dos, 
> will put them back.  If your Linux distribution doesn't have them 
> (Mandrake doesn't), use google to find a copy - there are several 
> versions, some even have man pages.

... or write these two utilities in Python, which won't take any
longer than googling, downloading and installing :-)

Gerhard
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