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As you suggested, I open the file in binary and it did it i.e.<br>
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before: f = open(outfile, "w")<br>
after: f = open(outfile, "wb")<br>
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Thank you very much. I am new in Python and find this usergroup very
efficient. I posted several requests this past week, and always
received very useful information.<br>
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michel belanger<br>
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Karl Pflästerer wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On 5 Feb 2004, Michel Bélanger <- <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:michel.belanger@seidel.ca">michel.belanger@seidel.ca</a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">but the file received is not the right size (larger), i.e. 5150 kb
received vs 5136 kb
Any idea why?
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I'm not sure but you open the file for writing in text mode. Try it
with binary
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