On 2007-01-05 03:46, tubby wrote:
> Is this the safest, most portable way to open files on any platform:
>
> fp = open(file_name, 'rb')
> fp.close()
>
> I understand that doing the following on Windows to a binary file (a
> jpeg or exe files for example) can cause file corruption, is that correct?
At Thursday 4/1/2007 23:46, tubby wrote:
I understand that doing the following on Windows to a binary file (a
jpeg or exe files for example) can cause file corruption, is that correct?
fp = open(file_name, 'r')
fp.close()
How can a simple open in read mode corrupt data???
You can't corrupt *