Actually, it's a result of System.Text.ASCIIEncoding, which replaces bytes greater than 0x7f with a question mark. I filed this as CodePlex work item #10983 (http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=10983).
Thanks, John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Foord Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 4:04 PM To: Discussion of IronPython Subject: [IronPython] Reading Text files with open Hello all, If I create a file with the following code: open(r'c:\temp\test.txt', 'w').write('\xa33') And then read it in using the Python 'open', I get different results with Python and IronPython: CPython 2.4.4: >>> data = open(r'c:\temp\test.txt').read() >>> data '\xa33' >>> ord(data[0]) 163 IronPython 1.1: >>> data = open(r'c:\temp\test.txt').read() >>> data '?3' >>> ord(data[0]) 63 If I use the 'rb' flag with IronPython then the right thing happens, but this isn't binary data... Is there any way round this - I guess it is a consequence of .NET strings. Michael _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
