File processing

[Peter Hansen]

Bjorn Pettersen wrote:
> 
> > From: fishers [mailto:m.e.l at btclick.com]
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Can Python be used to do 'high-level' file processing. for example,
> > appending one file to another? And if so, how?
> 
>   fp = open('file1', 'a')
>   fp.write(open('file2', 'rb').read())
>   fp.close()

Should use "ab" to open "file1" unless you want to expand \r\n
combinations in file2 to be \r\r\n when they are added to file1...

-Peter