read from binary file

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--

Stefan Andreatta wrote:
> 
> I have encountered severe problems when trying to read large amounts of data
> (unsigned short integer) from a binary file under NT. I use something like:
> 
> f = 'C:\\ai.xxx'
> file = open(f,'r')

file=open(f,'rb')

> buffer = file.read()
> 
> But the read() function always returns just some 1000 bytes of data and the
> stops.
> 
> Does anybody know, what could be the reason for that, and how I could read
> the whole file into a string?
> 

You must use the binary flag ('rb' instead of 'r') on Windoze, because
it cares.  Unices don't.

<tell-it-to-an-os-that-cares>-ly y'rs,
Ivan
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