On 2012-10-06, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Oct 2012 20:27:36 -0700 (PDT), palmeira <palme...@gmail.com> > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > >> >> #WRITE >> fb=open('testOUT.bin') > > Unless you specify otherwise, open() defaults to read-only
It also defaults to 'text' mode which does cr/lf translaction. That will break both reads and writes on any binary file containing 0x0a and 0x0d bytes. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list