Misleading error message when opening a file (on Windows XP SP 2)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Tim Peters wrote:

> Assuming the file exists and isn't read-only, I bet it's a Windows
> bug, and that if you open in binary mode ("r+b") instead I bet it goes
> away (this wouldn't be the first large-file text-mode Windows bug).

> dir bigfile.dat
2006-08-28  11:46     5 000 000 000 bigfile.dat

>>> f = file("bigfile.dat", "r")
>>> f = file("bigfile.dat", "r+")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'bigfile.dat'

>>> f = file("bigfile.dat", "rb")
>>> f = file("bigfile.dat", "r+b")

(typing f.read() here is a nice way to lock up the machine ;-)

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