write() problem

[yosefgold at my-deja.com]

When I open a file (on windows) with open("name",'wb')
and I write a string that has a caret "^" in it, the caret gets
replaced by a "\S\".

Why does this happen and how can I get the caret into the file.

Thanks,
Yosef Gold
yosef at adsc.com

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