Please don't top post; post below and trim the content. Also, please do a reply-to-all to keep the discussion on the list.
Further content is below... On 14Jun2010 11:44, madhuri vio <madhuri....@gmail.com> wrote: | On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: | > ODT files are _not_ text files. If I recall they are ZIP files containing | > XML, but I've never checked. There is more info here: | > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument | | i have renamed the odt file to human and read it in the | "rb" mode....still i get the same reply.... | | a = open("human","rb") | print a.readlines() Renaming a file in no way changes its content. So of course you get the same result. You also write: | when i did it thru a text editor...i am able to read it and It might help if you said _what_ text editor you used. Some GUI text editors like TextEdit on a Mac can understand word processor files. "Plain" text editors will show you binary stuff like your python program did. | unable to do the same thru a word document... I have no idea what this sentence means, however. -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
