binary file woes... (was: Re: chr(26) => file reading bug)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Jeff Senn <senn at maya.com> wrote:
> Reminds me -- I noticed the other day that 'cmp.py' opens files in
> default/non-binary mode which nearly caused me to delete a whole bunch
> of non-different files... :-( given the name of the module and the
> analogous unix command -- this is probably the wrong behavior...

this is fixed in the CVS version.  on the other hand, the
entire module is deprecated (it's moved to lib-old).

looks like it's replaced by a module called 'filecmp', which
provides essentially the same interface (a 'cmp' function),
with some extra optional parameters.

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