Bug with win32 open and utf-16 file

[derek / nul]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 07:29:46 +0300, Christos "TZOTZIOY" Georgiou
<tzot at sil-tec.gr> wrote:

>On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 04:13:44 GMT, rumours say that derek / nul
><abuseonly at sgrail.org> might have written:
>
>>Interesting, I have just done the same and it would appear that the hexdump
>>routine is changing 0d to 0a ???
>
>A quick glance at the code seems not, but this is not authoritative.
>
>>I don't understand what the data[-2:] is doing, could you explain please or
>>point to some notes on this.
>
>This is a slicing operation, prints the last two bytes of the string --
>you mean you haven't read the tutorial?

I have but not well enough by the look of it.

>Check strings (and slicing) at:
>http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node5.html#SECTION005120000000000000000
>
>but you better read the tutorial at:
>
>http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html
>
>(you might have it on your computer already).
>
>Say... :) you don't happen to be an HP owner that found python
>preinstalled on your PC, are you?

errr, no, just a small p programmer from vb and perl trying to learn an OO
language.

Derek