How to read Windows file in Linux environment?

Question

I'm trying to execute a Python program on Linux which I first created on Windows, but the following error is shown:

metadata = eval(metafile.read())
File "< string >", line 1

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Any idea?

Answer 1

dos2unix yourfile.py
python yourfile.py

If you don't have dos2unix, here is some python code you can use instead. Just put this in dos2unix.py, and run python dos2unix.py yourfile.py above:

import sys
filename = sys.argv[1]
text = open(filename, 'rb').read().replace('\r\n', '\n')
open(filename, 'wb').write(text)

This code was copied from Python dos2unix one liner.