determining bytes read from a file.

[Diez B. Roggisch]

vineeth wrote:

> 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 :
> __
>    file = open("somefile")
>    data = file.read()
>    print "bytes read ", len(data)
> ---
> 
>   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.

I doubt that. Python doesn't interpret data when reading, and byte-strings
don't have a implicit 0-based length.

So I think you must be doing something different - clearly the above is not
actual code, but something made up for this post. Show us your actual code,
please.

diez