Danny Yoo wrote: >> You're right, I realised after playing with Tim's example that the >> problem was that I wasn't calling close() on the codecs file. Adding >> this after the f.write(html_text) seems to flush the buffer which means >> that the content now gets written to the file. > > Hi Frank, > > Quick note: it may be important to write and read from the file using > binary mode "b". It's not so significant under Unix, but it is more > significant under Windows, because otherwise we may get some weird > results.
But the file is utf-8 text, ISTM it should be written as text, not binary. Why do you recommend binaray mode? Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor