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 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
