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[Skip Montanaro]

    Ulf> How do I open up an image in either .gif or .jpeg and save it to a
    Ulf> textfile in base64? I know about the base64 mod, but it seems like
    Ulf> I can't read the .gifs and .jpegs right. What should I do about
    Ulf> this?

If you're on Windows, make sure you open the image file using the binary
flag:

    gif = open(gifname, "rb")
    b64 = open(b64name, "wb")	# "b" shouldn't be needed here
    base64.encode(gif, b64)
    gif.close()
    b64.close()

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