[Fixing top-posting.] On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:41:44 -0800, Wojciech Gryc wrote:
> On Dec 20, 3:30 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] >> > However, when I use Python's various methods -- readline(), >> > readlines(), or xreadlines() and loop through the lines of the file, >> > the line program exits at 16,000 lines. No error output or anything >> > -- it seems the end of the loop was reached, and the code was >> > executed successfully. ... >> One possibility: you are running this on Windows and the file contains >> Ctrl-Z aka chr(26) aka '\x1a'. > > Hi, > > Python 2.5, on Windows XP. Actually, I think you may be right about \x1a > -- there's a few lines that definitely have some strange character > sequences, so this would make sense... Would you happen to know how I > can actually fix this (e.g. replace the character)? Since Python doesn't > see the rest of the file, I don't even know how to get to it to fix the > problem... Due to the nature of the data I'm working with, manual > editing is also not an option. > > Thanks, > Wojciech > Open the file in binary mode: open(filename, 'rb') and Windows should do no special handling of Ctrl-Z characters. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
