file.read problem

[Fredrik Lundh]

"wscrsurfdude" wrote:

> >Try opening the file in 'rbU' mode. This will use universal newline mode
> >and convert all carriage returns to line feeds.
>
> I tried this, but as you say, now there are 0x0A bytes extra in my
> files, is there also a possibility to let all these things out, and
> just get the file.
>
> I am working on a script to get parts of raw data out of a file, and
> the data I read has to be the data written in the file without CR or
> LF.

what kind of file are you reading?  if it's a text file, it's supposed to have
LF in it (or CR LF if you read it in binary mode); the LF:s are there to tell
you where each line ends.

if it's a binary file, open with mode "rb".

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