string reading bug in ActiveState Python 2.2 ?

[Harvey Thomas]

Axel Kowald wrote:[mailto:kowald at molgen.mpg.de]
> 
> 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 ?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
>                    Axel Kowald
> 
The 12th of the fifteen characters is \x1a which is EOF on Windows in text mode (the default).
Use fp = open("bla.txt", 'rb') and you will read all 15 characters.

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