read from binary file

[Stefan Andreatta]

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')
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?

Thanks You

Stefan