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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: |