On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:13:57 +0100, I wrote:
>Hmm ... the \r\n sequence at the end of a Win/DOS file seems to be
>treated as a single character.
For instance, if test001A.txt is this file:
abc xyz
Bd ef
gH ij
and test001E.py is this:
f = open('test001A.txt', 'r')
for line in f:
print repr(line)
then the output from "python test001E.py > temp.txt" is this:
'abc xyz\n'
'Bd ef\n'
'\n'
'gH ij\n'
and indeed the output from "print repr(f.read())" is this:
'abc xyz\nBd ef\n\ngH ij\n'
How do you actually get to see the raw bytes of a file in Windows?
OK, this seems to work:
f = open('test001A.txt', 'rb') # Binary mode
print repr(f.read())
Output:
'abc xyz\r\nBd ef\r\n\r\ngH ij\r\n'
Indeed, when a Windows file is opened for reading in binary mode,
the length of an "empty" line is returned as 2. This is starting
to make some sense to me now.
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Angus Rodgers
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