Python Does Not Read Entire Text File

Question

I\'m running into a problem that I haven\'t seen anyone on StackOverflow encounter or even google for that matter.

My main goal is to be able to replace occurences o

Answer 1

Try:

f = open("filename.txt", "rb")

On Windows, rb means open file in binary mode. According to the docs, text mode vs. binary mode only has an impact on end-of-line characters. But (if I remember correctly) I believe opening files in text mode on Windows also does something with EOF (hex 1A).

You can also specify the mode when using fileinput:

fileinput.input("filename.txt", inplace=1, mode="rb")