Does a py script written to open and read binary files on Windows affect files on a Linux or Mac machine in a negative way? My concern is portability and safety. I want scripts written within Windows to work equally well on Linux and Mac computers.
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? fp = open(file_name, 'r') fp.close() How can a simple open in read mode corrupt data??? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
