Apology to Bill Gates (was Re: ASV module, CVS modules)

[Tim Peters]

[John Machin -- maybe]
>     my_data.input_from_file("c:\test_data.csv", ASV.CSV(),
>   File "C:\PYTHON22\ASV.py", line 222, in input_from_file
>     file = open(input_file, "rb")
> IOError: invalid argument: rb
> Bill behaving badly: Seems like Bill chucks a wobbly if there is
> a_bloody_tab_character in a file name. I could be maligning Bill
> unjustly; could be GvR & Co -- I'll have a look at the Python source
> in a minute -- but I'd bet a couple of pots of beer that it's down to
> Bill.

Under Python 2.2 on Win98SE I get this:

Python 2.2 (#28, Dec 21 2001, 12:21:22) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> open('c:\test_data.csv', 'rb')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\test_data.csv'
>>>

Also under 2.1 and 2.0, except under 2.0 the detail reads

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\011est_data.csv'

instead.