In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden wrote: > Laurent Laporte wrote: > >> I'm using cvs standard module under Python 2.3 / 2.4 to read a CSV >> file. The file is opened in binary mode, so I keep the end of line >> terminator. >> > It's not advisable to open a file like a CSV, intended for use as text, > in binary mode.
But the docs "demand" this explicitly and all examples in the docs fulfill that demand. >From http://docs.python.org/lib/csv-contents.html : If csvfile is a file object, it must be opened with the 'b' flag on platforms where that makes a difference. I guess the reason is the same as for "text" pickle format: If you don't use binary mode the file is not platform independend anymore because some OSes "manipulate" the data in text mode. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
