string reading bug in ActiveState Python 2.2 ?

[Max M]

Axel Kowald wrote:


> I'm using ActiveStates Python 2.2.1 under win2000 to read in the 
> attached text file and it seems that python is only reading part of the 
> string. After
> 
> fp = open("bla.txt")
> z = fp.read()
> print len(z), z
> 
> I see that only 11 of the 15 characters have been read. I know they are 
> non-printable characters, but that shouldn't matter, should it ?  Using 
> another python on one of our unix machines everything works as expected 
> and all 15 chars are read in.  Is that there something special about 
> windows that I should know, or is this a bug in ActiveStates Python ?



Probably you should open it as a binary file:


fp = open("bla.txt","b")


regards max M