determining bytes read from a file.

[vineeth]

Hello all,
   I have come across a weird problem, I need to determine the amount
of bytes read from a file, but couldn't figure it out ,
   My program does this :
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   file = open("somefile")
   data = file.read()
   print "bytes read ", len(data)
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  But the bytes read is not being printed correctly, I think bytes are
being counted only till the first occurance of '\0' is encountered.
Even though the file is of a very large size, the bytes till the first
'\0' are counted.

 Can someone pls advise me regarding this.
 Thanks.

Best Regards,
Vineeth.