John Machin sjmachin at lexicon.net
Thu Dec 13 07:29:15 EST 2007

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On Dec 13, 11:04 pm, vineeth <nvine... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>    I have come across a weird problem, I need to determine the amount
> of bytes read from a file, but couldn't figure it out ,
>    My program does this :
> __
>    file = open("somefile")
>    data = file.read()
>    print "bytes read ", len(data)
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>   But the bytes read is not being printed correctly, I think bytes are
> being counted only till the first occurance of '\0' is encountered.
> Even though the file is of a very large size, the bytes till the first
> '\0' are counted.
>
>  Can someone pls advise me regarding this.
>  Thanks.
>
> Best Regards,
> Vineeth.

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