Sorry my initial post was muddled. Let me try again.
I've got a zipped archive that I can extract files from with my
standard archive unzipping program, 7-zip. I'd like to extract the
files in python via the zipfile module. However, when I extract the
file from the archive with ZipFile.read(), it
I think I've worked it out after reading the 'Binary mode for files'
section of http://zephyrfalcon.org/labs/python_pitfalls.html
zipfile extracts as file as a binary series of characters, and I'm
writing out this binary file as a text file with open('foo','w').
Normally Python converts a '\n' in