Re: [Jython-dev] Ptyhon compatibility problems

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[Jorge Tellez]

>In Python 2.0 the following code writes a binary file.
>
>original = 48565078965739
>twobis = 256l
>a = []
>f = open('c:\\code.gz','w')
>try:
>  while original > 0:
>    original, binary =3D divmod(original, twobis)
>    a.insert(0, (chr(binary)))
>  for c in a:
>    f.write(c)
>finally:
>  f.close()
>
>In Python this file is written correctly , but when we tried the same
>code in Jython 2.0 the code did not do the job.
>The problem we found was an incompatibility writting the binary file, in
>Python is allowed to write the code:
>
>f = open('c:\\code.gz','w')     or     f = open('c:\\code.gz','wb')
>
>While in Jython only the second option is valid.

Right. I have added this difference and an explation for it to the
differences page:

   http://www.jython.org/docs/differences.html

regards,
finn