sim.sim wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I had touch with some different python behavior: I was tried to write
> into a file a string with the '\x1a' symbol, and for FreeBSD system,
> it gives expected result:
>
>>>> open("test", "w").write('before\x1aafter')
>>>> open('test').read()
> 'before\x1aafter'
>
>
> but for my WinXP box, it gives some strange:
>
>>>> open("test", "w").write('before\x1aafter')
>>>> open('test').read()
> 'before'
>
> Here I can write all symbols, but not read.
> I've tested it with python 2.6, 2.5 and 2.2 and WinXP SP2.
>
> Why is it so and is it possible to fix it?
'\x1a' is the End-of-file mark that Windows inherited from MS-DOS and CP/M.
The underlying Windows libraries honour it for files opened in text mode.
open ('test', 'rb').read()
will read the whole file.
Mel.
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