strange python scripting error

[Dave Angel]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:18:58 -0400, Dave Angel <davea at ieee.org>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>   
>> Another thing I'd point out is that some ftp programs will do this 
>> conversion as the file is being sent between a local DOS machine and a 
>> Unix machine on the internet.
>>
>>     
> 	"some ftp programs"?
>
> 	Line end conversion is the whole reason, to my knowledge, for text
> mode transfer, vs binary mode transfer.
>
> <snip>
>
>   
Perhaps I should have said "most ftp programs," or even "all ftp 
programs," but I don't feel qualified to make such a generalization.  In 
any case, I don't currently use such automatic conversion when I'm doing 
transfers because I like to be able to see exactly what's there, and I 
don't have another way to directly examine the remote end.

The FTP I use is an add-on for Firefox (FireFTP), and although it has 
text and "auto" modes, it's buried in the Tools->options menu, and the 
main panel just does a transfer using whichever mode was selected.  
Rather than risking corrupting the (mostly binary) files, I choose to 
use binary mode all the time.

DaveA