On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, johan nilsson wrote:
> apparently the XP box thinks the file is alot shorter, and that can't be
> as it is the same file from the same media (USB stick). What is going
> wrong here?
Hi Johan,
Is it possible that you need to treat the file as a binary file? It's
rare, but very possible that something like:
f = open(somefilename,'r')
a = f.read()
will give you different results on different platforms, because newline
translation occurs on the Windows end of things. ("\n" --> "\r\n" or visa
versa) So if your file coincidently has bytes with the sequential values:
######
>>> ord('\r'), ord('\n')
(13, 10)
######
then we should expect to see those two bytes collapsed down to a single
one through the mechanism of newline translation.
But if this is happening, there's an easy fix:
f = open(somefilename,'rb')
a = f.read()
where we open the file in binary mode.
Good luck!
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