Writing binary to stdout

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Paul Watson wrote:
> How can I write lines to stdout on a Windows machine without having '\n'
> expanded to '\r\n'.
> 
> I need to do this on Python 2.1 and 2.3+.
> 
> I see the msvcrt.setmode function.  Is this my only path?  Is it valid to
> change the mode of stdout?  The file.newlines is not writable.

What about opening the file in binary mode? This should give you control
over the line endings.

Reinhold

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