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problems with re in binary files

Chris Barker chrishbarker at home.net
Fri Sep 21 13:18:58 EDT 2001 
"Steven D. Arnold" wrote:

> When I opened it in "rb" mode, it started
> working.  The manual seems to suggest this is only an issue on some
> operating systems, such as Windows.

yep , that's "b" for "binary", if you want a binary file open it as a
binary file. As it happens, this makes no difference on *nix systems, as
Python's internal line separater happens to be the same as *nix's, but
it's still a good idea to put the b there: for portability and clarity.

-Chris


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