On 02/09/2010 08:49, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message<mailman.330.1283362312.29448.python-l...@python.org>, MRAB
wrote:
You should open the files in binary mode, not text mode, ie file(path,
"rb"). Text mode is the default. Not a problem on *nix because the line
ending is newline.
We used to pride ourselves on not having to worry about text versus binary
I/O modes on *nix, but I’m beginning to think the reality is we have to
adopt it.
To start with, it means we can automatically handle different newline
conventions with text files originating on different systems.
In Python 3 the difference is important because binary mode works with
bytes and text mode works with strings, plus the file encoding and line
endings.
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