Unhelpful traceback
Dave Angel
davea at davea.name
Thu Mar 7 19:23:20 EST 2013
On 03/07/2013 04:23 PM, John Nagle wrote:
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>> <snip>
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> raise RuntimeError, 'open() requires mode "r", "U", or "rU"'
> RuntimeError: open() requires mode "r", "U", or "rU"
>
> "b" for files is about end of line handling (CR LF -> LF), anyway.
>
Only for Python 2. Since originally you didn't specify, I took my best
shot. If you omit the 'b' opening a binary file in Python 3, you'd get
problems similar to yours. Text files will be converted to Unicode.
That's one of the reasons that specifying the full environment is important.
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DaveA
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