"rbt" wrote: > I'm using 'rb' in a situation where all files on the drive are opened. I'm > not checking how the > file is encoded before opening it (text, unicode, jpeg, etc.) That's why I > though 'rb' would be > safest.
if "safest way to open files" meant "safest way to open binary files", why didn't you say so in your first post? > Can 'U' be used with 'rb'? Should it be? "U" is for text files, "b" is for binary files. binary files contain bytes, text files contain text. if you're opening a file to read it as text (readline, read- lines, iteration, etc), use "r" or "rU". if you're opening a file to read it as binary bytes (read), use "rb". </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
