Clodoaldo Pinto Neto wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > Clodoaldo Pinto Neto wrote: > > > > > The offending file is 5.5 MB. Sorry, i could not reproduce this problem > > > with a smaller file. > > > > but surely you can post the repr() of the last two lines? > > This is the output: > > $ python bzp.py > line number: 588317 > '\x07' > ''
Confirmed on windows with 2.4 and 2.5: C:\p>\Python24\python.exe bzp.py line number: 588317 '\x1e' '' C:\p>\Python25\python.exe bzp.py line number: 588317 '\x1e' '' Looks like one byte of garbage is appended at the end of file. Please file a bug report. As a workaround "rU" mode seems to work fine for this file. -- Leo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list