On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:04:59 -0800, vineeth wrote: > I have come across a weird problem, I need to determine the amount > of bytes read from a file, but couldn't figure it out , > My program does this : > __ > file = open("somefile") > data = file.read() > print "bytes read ", len(data) > --- > > But the bytes read is not being printed correctly, I think bytes are > being counted only till the first occurance of '\0' is encountered. > Even though the file is of a very large size, the bytes till the first > '\0' are counted.
If you want to deal with bytes better open the file in binary mode. Windows alters line endings and stops at a specific byte (forgot the value) otherwise. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list