<jepler at unpythonic.net> wrote in message news:mailman.1030915575.26265.python-list at python.org... > either do not use Windows, or make sure you open with 'rb' and 'wb'. > > Jeff > Thank you very much! When it said that 'load' automatically figured out if it was a binary file or not, i forgot about specifying 'rb' in open. thanks, jano