Using python to write text files with DOS line endings on linux

Question

I want to write text files with DOS/Windows line endings \'\\r\\n\' using python running on Linux. It seems to me that there must be a better way than manually putting a \'\\r\\

Answer 1

You could write a function that converts text then writes it. For example:

def DOSwrite(f, text):
    t2 = text.replace('\n', '\r\n')
    f.write(t2)
#example
f = open('/path/to/file')
DOSwrite(f, "line 1\nline 2")
f.close()