"wscrsurfdude" wrote: > >Try opening the file in 'rbU' mode. This will use universal newline mode > >and convert all carriage returns to line feeds. > > I tried this, but as you say, now there are 0x0A bytes extra in my > files, is there also a possibility to let all these things out, and > just get the file. > > I am working on a script to get parts of raw data out of a file, and > the data I read has to be the data written in the file without CR or > LF.
what kind of file are you reading? if it's a text file, it's supposed to have LF in it (or CR LF if you read it in binary mode); the LF:s are there to tell you where each line ends. if it's a binary file, open with mode "rb". </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
