On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>wrote:
> On 06/02/12 15:11, Tony Pelletier wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been tasked with getting the encoded value using a SOAP call and
>> then writing the file out. I first used the interpreter to do so like
>> such:
>>
>> import base64
>>
>> encoded = 'super long encoded string'
>> data = base64.b64decode(encoded)
>> outfile = open('test.xls', 'w')
>>
>
>
> Have you tried opening as a binary file?
>> Excel .xls uses binary data...
>
>
Unbelievable. In the snippet you quoted above, it didn't matter. That one
always worked, but changing it in the code I wrote, it totally fixed it. :)
Thanks!
>
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