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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-01-26 14:02:38 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-01-26 14:02:38 (GMT) |
| commit | 2a7d991c6c16145d657e4858a4ef3b9147b183a0 (patch) | |
| tree | b0a2bad21a62b605968b0f409bd68ef654dc482e /Doc/tutorial | |
| parent | 0c3f1680b38ca1c9119442f523173e3729f3b70f (diff) | |
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Clarify "b" mode under Unix.
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst index d3b912a..f9eec97 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst @@ -200,7 +200,8 @@ characters in text files are automatically altered slightly when data is read or written. This behind-the-scenes modification to file data is fine for ASCII text files, but it'll corrupt binary data like that in :file:`JPEG` or :file:`EXE` files. Be very careful to use binary mode when reading and writing -such files. +such files. On Unix, it doesn't hurt to append a ``'b'`` to the mode, so +you can use it platform-independently for all binary files. .. _tut-filemethods: |