In message <mailman.379.1283444129.29448.python-l...@python.org>, MRAB wrote:
> On 02/09/2010 08:49, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> In message<mailman.330.1283362312.29448.python-l...@python.org>, MRAB >> wrote: >> >>> You should open the files in binary mode, not text mode, ie file(path, >>> "rb"). Text mode is the default. Not a problem on *nix because the line >>> ending is newline. >> >> We used to pride ourselves on not having to worry about text versus >> binary I/O modes on *nix, but I’m beginning to think the reality is we >> have to adopt it. >> >> To start with, it means we can automatically handle different newline >> conventions with text files originating on different systems. > > In Python 3 the difference is important because binary mode works with > bytes and text mode works with strings, plus the file encoding and line > endings. Yeah, that seems like a reasonable approach—make you decide up-front what exactly is the sort of file content you’re dealing with. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
