seek() tell()

[Erik Max Francis]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> I suspect the difference is because you've opened the file in
> "text mode" under Windows.  If you just do fo = open('name', 'w')
> it will be in text mode, where all linefeed characters (\n)
> are converted to carriage-return/linefeed pairs, increasing
> the size of the output by one byte per line.
> 
> If you don't want this behaviour (but under Windows you probably
> do), just open the file in "binary mode" using open('name,' 'wb).
> For more information, read the friendly manual...

Presumably you mean "rb" or "wb+", since you can't seek and tell on
files opened for write only.

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