title: Removing newline from a csv file
body: <p>I am trying to process a csv file in python that has ^M character in the middle of each row/line which is a newline. I cant open the file in any mode other than 'rU'.</p>
  
  <p>If I do open the file in the 'rU' mode, it reads in the newline and splits the file (creating a newline) and gives me twice the number of rows.</p>
  
  <p>I want to remove the newline altogether. How?</p>