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Change to tutorial wording for reading text / binary files on Windows. Issue #6301.

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Michael Foord 2009-09-13 16:13:36 +00:00
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@ -248,8 +248,8 @@ writing. The *mode* argument is optional; ``'r'`` will be assumed if it's
omitted.
On Windows, ``'b'`` appended to the mode opens the file in binary mode, so there
are also modes like ``'rb'``, ``'wb'``, and ``'r+b'``. Windows makes a
distinction between text and binary files; the end-of-line characters in text
are also modes like ``'rb'``, ``'wb'``, and ``'r+b'``. Python on Windows makes
a distinction between text and binary files; the end-of-line 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