Skipping EOFs when using file objects?

[Colin Cashman]

> I'm building a decoder for yEnc files, but I'm hitting premature EOF 
> characters (that is, I'm only 300 or 400 bytes into the file, when the 
> file size is around 950 bytes).

It turns out I wasn't opening the file in binary mode. This fixed the 
problem.

I'd like to thank both Jeff Epler and Chad Netzer for emailing me the 
solution. Thanks, guys!

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