[PythonCE] Weird Error

[Voidspace]

Hmm... bugger.
I'm sure the same code ran fine on 2.2.3 for pocketpc though.
This code certainly runs fine on the desktop version of windows......... 
and it'll be a pain if I have to put another work around for 
pocketpc.........

Hohum......
Anyway - I'll try it and elt you know... thanks.

Fuzzy

Alan Kennedy wrote:

>Voidspace wrote:
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>>Why does python 2.3 on the pocketPC think that 'w' is an invalid IO mode ?
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>I don't know the solution for sure, but here's a theory.
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>Microsoft operating systems tend to do character translation on input
>and output streams. In python 2.3 on win2k, when writing a text file,
>the C runtime libraries translate all '\n' to '\r\n', the DOS
>end-of-line terminator. To open a file in text mode, you open with a
>mode of either "rt" or "wt".
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>If one wants to open a file in "binary" mode, where the '\n' to '\r\n'
>translation should not be done, then one uses modes 'rb' or 'wb'.
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>So maybe the mode of 'w' is fine, but the MS runtime library might be
>insisting that you specify either binary or text mode. So try
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>self.outputfile = open(outputpath, 'wt') # or 'wb'
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>I could be completely wrong though ;-)
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>And of course, *nix doesn't have these problems, because '\n' stays
>represented by a single character in text files. So using modes "w",
>"wb" and "wt" should all be equivalant on *nix.
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>Al.
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