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I'm currently working on an application that involves reading pdf files into a variable and passing them to a server via http POST method.

On Linux, everything is fine because I can use cat and popen:

pdf = os.popen('cat testpdf.pdf').read() #read pdf data in Linux

However, in Windows, the DOS equivalent of cat called "type" is giving me garbage for pdf values.

My questions:
Is there a way to safely read a pdf values using DOS commands?
If not, how could I store a pdf in a single variable using Python?

Thanks

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Why not pdf = open("testpdf.pdf", "rb").read() ?

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i didnt get get what is 'os' and when i wrote your program on linux, ireceived an error saying popen not defined and unknown 'os'

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