[Tutor] file.read() doesn't give full contents of compressed files

[Barton David]

I see. Thanks for that.

dave 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kent Johnson [mailto:kent37 at tds.net] 
Sent: 20 February 2007 13:30
To: Barton David
Cc: tutor at python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] file.read() doesn't give full contents of
compressed files

Barton David wrote:
> Oh... of course. Thanks and sorry for missing the bleeding obvious.
> 
> Mind you, when reading in 'txt mode' rather than binary, len() 
> actually gives a much *smaller* size than getsize. Does the conversion

> into txt happen to introduce some sort of terminator character that 
> stops
> file.read() from going to the end?

Actually, yes. A ctrl-Z is treated as an end-of-file when reading a file
in text mode on Windows.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/4604aac0222a0043?hl=
en&

Kent


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