tkp...@hotmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the guidance - it was indeed an issue with reading in binary vs. text., and I do now succeed in reading the last line, except that I now seem unable to split it, as I demonstrate below. Here's what I get when I read the last line in text mode using 2.7.1 and in binary mode using 3.2 respectively under IDLE:3.2 b'Name\t31/12/2009\t0\t0\t0\r\n' under 3.2, with its binary read, I get --> x.split('\t') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#26>", line 1, in <module> x.split('\t') TypeError: Type str doesn't support the buffer API
You are trying to split a bytes object with a str object -- the two are not compatible. Try splitting with the bytes object b'\t'.
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