> The problem here seems to be that this isn't currently well documented. > I've got no objection to using the buffer attribute...
Ok, then it seems you missed the obvious way: Open the file in binary mode ('rb' or 'wb') if you want to read or write bytes. It has always been that way in Python; the only change now is that it matters on systems other than Windows. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com