Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:57:10 +0000, John Salerno wrote: > >> Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >>> The important term there is BINARY, not large. Many problems *reading* >>> (not opening) binary files will go away if you use 'rb', regardless of >>> whether they are small, medium or large. >> Is 'b' the proper parameter to use when you want to read/write a binary >> file? I was wondering about this, because the book I'm reading doesn't >> talk about dealing with binary files. > > The interactive interpreter is your friend. Call help(file), and you will > get: > > class file(object) > | file(name[, mode[, buffering]]) -> file object > | > | Open a file. The mode can be 'r', 'w' or 'a' for reading (default), > | writing or appending. The file will be created if it doesn't exist > | when opened for writing or appending; it will be truncated when > | opened for writing. Add a 'b' to the mode for binary files. > > plus extra information. > > Take note that the mode is NOT "b". It is "rb". > >
Awesome! I'm trying to push away thoughts of C#'s binary reader and writer classes now. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
