How do I 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 "<pyshell#5>", line 1, in <module>
    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 <undefined>

Can anyone help me with this?

Solution

Instead of converting, you should be able to just open the file using Python's universal newline support:

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

(Note the U.)