"izak marais" wrote:
> What I had been doing was first using
>
> fp = open("test.bmp","w")
that opens the file in *text* mode, which, among other things, means that the
line feed character (chr(10)) is mapped to the native line ending on some plat-
forms.
to open a file for writing in binary mode, use open(filename, "wb").
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