Determine file type (binary or text)
John Machin
sjmachin at lexicon.net
Wed Aug 13 19:04:55 EDT 2003
Graham Fawcett <fawcett at teksavvy.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1060799361.14244.python-list at python.org>...
>
> It is trivial to create a non-text file that has no NULs.
>
> f = open('no_zeroes.bin', 'rb')
> for x in range(1, 256):
> f.write(chr(x))
> f.close()
I tried this but it didn't work. It said:
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'no_zeroes.bin'.
So I thought I had to be persistent but after doing it a few more times it said:
SerialIdiotError: What I tell you three times is true.
NotLispingError: You need 'wb' as in 'wascally wabbit'
This is very strange behaviour -- does my computer have worms?
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