Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > What does a binary file do that a text file doesn't, aside > > from not converting the end of line characters? > > Nothing. It's the end-of-line conversion that can break binary > data.
I believe that a "control-Z" (ord(26)) in a file that's being read as text, on Windows, is also taken as an end-of-file indication. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
