Re: Blocked with Ordered broken on Win32 (was Database binary compatibility?)

Humm...seems to be a problem with the VMware/Samba mounted
file systems.  I moved the '.mk' file to my C: drive and
now am seeing correct output (at least from this simple
program).  How bothersome, a whole day wasted chasing this.

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:51, William K. Volkman wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:41, Brian Kelley wrote:
> > I'll bet you a beer that I know what you are doing wrong here (because
> > I've done the same thing :) )
> > 
> Where are you? I'd like to collect (just kidding ;-)
> 
> grep -Hn open dbrestore.py
> dbrestore.py:42:r = open('backup-data.sav','rb')
> 
> Good thought though.
> 
> > If you load or save on windows, you MUST supply the binary flag.
> > 
> > read
> > file = open("foo", "b")
> > 
> > write
> > file = open('foo", "wb")
> > 
> > Another reason why windows stinks (IMHO).  If you want portable
> > metakit, whenever you use save or load just add the stupid binary
> > flag.
> 
> The attached simple program pukes garbage on the screen
> and after a couple of runs gives me the
> SystemError: error return without exception set.
> 
> Do you have a Windows system that you could test it on?
-- 
William K. Volkman <[email protected]>

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