From e2d7036e82e2857f98437ab0c37a3afcf02747e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:01:17 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] added some fixes for weird newlines in csv uploads
---
helios/models.py | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/helios/models.py b/helios/models.py
index e532f92..67f0895 100644
--- a/helios/models.py
+++ b/helios/models.py
@@ -673,6 +673,12 @@ class VoterFile(models.Model):
else:
content = self.voter_file_content
+ # now we have to handle non-universal-newline stuff
+ # we do this in a simple way: replace all \r with \n
+ # then, replace all double \n with single \n
+ # this should leave us with only \n
+ content = content.replace('\r','\n').replace('\n\n','\n')
+
voter_stream = io.BytesIO(content)
else:
voter_stream = open(self.voter_file.path, "rU")
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