determining bytes read from a file.

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:04:59 -0800, vineeth wrote:

>    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.

If you want to deal with bytes better open the file in binary mode. 
Windows alters line endings and stops at a specific byte (forgot the
value) otherwise.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch