python tutorial

steve steve at nospam.au
Wed Jun 17 20:36:01 EDT 2009


>"Carl Banks" <pavlovevidence at gmail.com> wrote in message 
>news:2f6271b1-5ffa-4cec-81f8->>0276ad647026 at p5g2000pre.googlegroups.com...
>On Jun 15, 7:56 pm, "steve" <st... at nospam.au> wrote:
>> I was just looking at the python tutorial, and I noticed these lines:
>>
>> http://docs.python.org/tutorial/inputoutput.html#reading-and-writing-...
>>
>> "Windows makes a distinction between text and binary files;
>> "the end-of-line characters in text files are automatically altered
>> "slightly when data is read or written.
>>
>> I don't see any obvious way to at docs.python.org to get that corrected: 
>> Is
>> there some standard procedure?
>
>What's wrong with it?
>
>
>Carl Banks

1) Windows does not make a distinction between text and binary files.

2) end-of-line characters in text files are not automatically altered by 
Windows.

(david)





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