newbie problem with files...
Bjorn Pettersen
BPettersen at NAREX.com
Mon May 27 14:45:21 EDT 2002
> From: Bjoern [mailto:google at blinker.net]
>
> Hello,
>
> I can't seem to read complete files, they are usually cropped
> after 1Kb or so. I've tried with file upload in cgi, but also
> reading files from disk directly and writing them to another file.
>
> The only thing I could imagine is that it has to do with the
> description of read():
>
> "For certain files, like ttys, it makes sense to continue
> reading after an EOF is hit."
>
> I don't know what a ttys is - so how would I know when to
> continue reading after an EOF, and how would I then know when to stop?
>
> My current testcode goes like this
>
> fIn = open("doublebuffer.zip","r")
[snip]
You need to open it for binary read, so instead of "r" in the line above
put "rb".
-- bjorn
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