[Frederic Rentsch] > Thanks a lot for your input. I seemed to notice that everything > works fine without setting the cursor as long as it stops before the end > of the file. Is that also a coincidence that may not work?
"if you want to read following a write, or write following a read, on the same stream, you must perform a file-positioning operation (typically a seek) between them" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
