Convert \r text to \n so readlines() works as intended

Question

In Python, you can read a file and load its lines into a list by using

f = open(\'file.txt\',\'r\')
lines = f.readlines()

Each individual l

Answer 1

f = open('file.txt','rU')

This opens the file with Python's universal newline support and \r is treated as an end-of-line.