[chaley]

Originally Posted by kiwidude

Right - I suspected the read above... thats what you get for copying code off the web

This is where I stole it from...
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/list.../python/739198

From that post:

$ python
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Feb 17 2009, 20:16:45)
[GCC 4.3.3] on linux2

The code would work there. That guy was running on linux, which always uses binary mode. One of the traps and pitfalls of multiplatform support.