Python convert lf to crlf

I found a list of the majority of English words online, but the line breaks are of unix-style (encoded in Unicode: UTF-8). I found it on this website: http://dreamsteep.com/projects/the-english-open-word-list.html

How do I convert the line breaks to CRLF so I can iterate over them? The program I will be using them in goes through each line in the file, so the words have to be one per line.

This is a portion of the file: bitbackbitebackbiterbackbitersbackbitesbackbitingbackbittenbackboard

It should be:

bit
backbite
backbiter
backbiters
backbites
backbiting
backbitten
backboard

How can I convert my files to this type? Note: it's 26 files (one per letter) with 80,000 words or so in total (so the program should be very fast).

I don't know where to start because I've never worked with unicode. Thanks in advance!

Using rU as the parameter (as suggested), with this in my code:

with open(my_file_name, 'rU') as my_file:
    for line in my_file:
        new_words.append(str(line))
my_file.close()

I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
    addWords('B Words')
  File "D:\my_stuff\Google Drive\documents\SCHOOL\Programming\Python\Programming Class\hangman.py", line 138, in addWords
    for line in my_file:
  File "C:\Python3.3\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
    return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8d in position 7488: character maps to 

Can anyone help me with this?

Change LF line endings to CRLF (Unix to Windows)

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#! /usr/bin/env python

"Replace LF with CRLF in argument files.  Print names of changed files."

import sys, re, os

def main():
    for filename in sys.argv[1:]:
        if os.path.isdir(filename):
            print filename, "Directory!"
            continue
        data = open(filename, "rb").read()
        if '\0' in data:
            print filename, "Binary!"
            continue
        newdata = re.sub("\r?\n", "\r\n", data)
        if newdata != data:
            print filename
            f = open(filename, "wb")
            f.write(newdata)
            f.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

           
       
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How do you convert CRLF to LF in Python?

Convert line endings in-place (with Python 3).
# replacement strings..
WINDOWS_LINE_ENDING = b'\r\n'.
UNIX_LINE_ENDING = b'\n'.
# relative or absolute file path, e.g.:.
file_path = r"c:\Users\Username\Desktop\file.txt".
with open(file_path, 'rb') as open_file:.

How do you convert LF to CR LF?

In Notepad++ go to the View > Show Symbol menu and select Show End of Line. Once you select View > Show Symbol > Show End of Line you can see the CR LF characters visually. You can then use the menu item Edit > EOL Conversion and select Unix (LF).