Conitnue to read through NUL

Question

I got a .dat file, encoded in ANSI which contains NUL caracters (not only !).

I wan't to read it into a str object iot cut something in the whole str obtained.

But file.read() stops when the first NUL is reached.

I'm lost :)

My code :

file=open(source, mode='rt')
fulltext=file.read()
print(fulltext)

NUL is show with Notepad++ I'm on Windows XP, with PortablePython 3.2 The file is a special DAT file that can be edited with notepad as a text.

I don't think EOF and NUL (you mean just 0?) are the same, so `file.read()` shouldn't stop. Can you show us the code you use, and tell us 1) the Python version you're using, and 2) what platform you're on? — , Nov 21 '12 at 10:21
It may be that pyscripter is the problem. The "Related" sidebar showed [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7581963/read-stops-after-nul-character?rq=1) , which has a similar problem (socket conn. instead of a file), where the resolution was not to use pyscripter. — , Nov 21 '12 at 11:02
THX Evert ! I can't pay for an IDE like Wing IDE. I tried my code into a batch DOS file ... with the python.exe instead of the pythonw.exe. — mat.viguier, Nov 21 '12 at 12:56

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 21 '12 at 10:30

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If you want to read bytes like 0, chances are your file is a binary file. Read in binary mode rb instead of text mode rt.

answered Nov 21 '12 at 10:30

Kos

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`\x00` is how you encode NUL byte in Python string literals. The file is probably read properly so look how you're printing it. – Kos Nov 21 '12 at 10:52
But 13MB of data won't fit on a screen anyway – Kos Nov 21 '12 at 11:54

mat.viguier · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-19T12:09:36.423

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As Evert has commented in my question, the problem was focused on the use of Pyscripter ! So, this question is closed :)

edited Dec 19 '12 at 12:09

answered Nov 21 '12 at 12:58

mat.viguier

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