On 29Aug2012 17:57, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: | On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:21:30 -0700 (PDT), "Adam W." | <awasile...@gmail.com> declaimed the following in | gmane.comp.python.general: | > You are correct about the 2 being the number of bytes written. However when I issue a read command I get: | > | > >>> ep.write('\x1BA') | > 4 | | That's interesting -- as if each byte you send is expanding into a | pair of bytes.
UTF-16? ISTR that Windows often uses big endian UTF-16 for filenames and text data; could there be some default encoding in ep.write getting in your way? Disclaimer: I'm really not a Windows guy. -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> There are too many people now for everyone to be entitled to his own opinion. - Dr. Handelman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list