On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 4:48 AM, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > The translation was straightforward, EXCEPT that I wasted an hour trying to > figure out to write /a single byte/ to a file. The following eventually > worked, using a binary file as a text one had Unicode problems, but it's > still hacky.
You can't write a single byte to a text file, because text files don't store bytes. I'm not sure which part of this took you an hour to figure out. > # For Python 3 (it'll work on Python 2 but give the wrong results) What does "work" mean? If it gives the wrong results, how is it working? > end = 0 # lines containing 'end' can be removed You're not writing Python code here. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
