[Jython-users] Binary data changed in read

[John M. <joh...@ya...>]

This should be easy.  Reading a binary file in Jython causes changes to
the data?  But it works in Python.


$ jython
Jython 2.0 on javaVM-1.3.0.01 (JIT: null)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> tiffObj = open('john.tif', 'r').read()
>>> open('junk.tif', 'w').write(tiffObj)
>>> 
$ sum -r  junk.tif john.tif
04308    25 junk.tif
16525    25 john.tif          
$ cmp  junk.tif john.tif   
junk.tif john.tif differ: char 170, line 1
$ python                   
Python 2.0 (#3, Feb  1 2001, 04:39:53) 
[GCC 2.7.2.3] on hp-uxB
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> tiffObj = open('john.tif', 'r').read()
>>> open('junk.tif', 'w').write(tiffObj)
>>> 
$ cmp  junk.tif john.tif
$ 


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