What s the right way to concatenate files and appending the New Line character in Python Text or binary mode

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Trying to concatenate multiple files in a root to a single file. These are the problems I face:

  • When I've opened each textfile in text file mode the output file shows strange characters (gibberish)
  • When I've opened each textfile in binary mode the output file was corrected.

I'm using Python3 here, so what am I missing?

Nov 13, 2018 in Python by Nymeria
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edited Dec 14, 2018 by Nymeria 1,703 views

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It seems like you're using the wrong encoding for the file in this case. 

If you write a file in one encoding and read it in a different encoding, you will end up getting nonsensical characters made up of the same bytes being interpreted in the wrong way IMHO.

Hope this helps!

answered Nov 13, 2018 by Anirudh
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edited Dec 14, 2018 by Anirudh

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