On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> You're correct that it makes no sense to open a tar file in binary
> mode,
Of course that should have read: "it makes no sense to open a tar file
in text mode."
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On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> Really? I thought that the whole idea of using "rb" or "wb" was something
> that was necessitated by WinBlo$e. We're not doing IO on a text file here.
> It's a tar file which by definition is binary and it's not clear to me why
> unicode has
On 12/26/2012 11:11 AM, Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
On Dec 26, 2012 11:00 AM, "Antoon Pardon" mailto:antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be>> wrote:
>
> I am converting some programs to python 3. These programs manipulate
tarfiles. In order for the python3 programs to be really useful
> they need to be able
On Dec 26, 2012 11:00 AM, "Antoon Pardon"
wrote:
>
> I am converting some programs to python 3. These programs manipulate
tarfiles. In order for the python3 programs to be really useful
> they need to be able to process the tarfiles produced by python2 that
however seems to be a problem.
>
> This
You probably want to write
of = open("DUMP.tbz", "wb")
and
gf =open("DUMP.tbz", "rb")
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