[Zope] reading of binary files

[Tres Seaver]

Terry Kerr <terry@adroitnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I encountered this problem when my product tries to load image files
> from the local drive.  The code is below:
> 
> file="blah"
> ob._setObject(file,OFS.Image.Image(file,file,"","image/gif"))
> data = f.read()
> ob._getOb(file).manage_upload(data)
> 
> This works fine in zope under linux, but in zope under windows, the data
> is trucated.  This is a python problem in windows.  f.read() returns a
> string that is only a fraction of the length of the image file.  Is
> there a way around this problem?  Has anybody else encountered this
> problem?

You don't show us how you open the file object, f; the default is to open it is
"text" mode, which is the same as binary mode on a Unix box, but *not* on
Windows.  Try:

  f = open( 'bla.gif', 'rb' )

instead of 

  f = open( 'blah.gif', 'r' )

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