2009/5/8 Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com>: > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Li Wang <li.wan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all: >>
> the file, e.g. open("the_file.xls", "rb") > Unlike *nix, Windows differentiates between binary and text files, > hence the need for the "b" flag to specify which you're dealing with. Hi Thank you very much for reply, The method doesn't work. Here is the problem: after reading the whole fie as a string, I need the string to be made of 8bits-symbols. I do not mind what's the content in the file, what I need to do is something like reading the file byte by byte and concatenate these bytes into a single string. Any suggestions? Thank you very much -- Li ------ Time is all we have and you may find one day you have less than you think -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list