Noob problem with read()

[Guy_in_Wisconsin]

Hello. I'm trying out Python after being a novice Perl user. I'm having an unexpected result when I run this script:

# test.py

f = open("one.bin",'rb')
n = open("two.bin",'wb')
x = f.read(n)
n.write(x)
f.close()
n.close()

"x" contain the data of the script, "test.py", and not "one.bin".

"x = f.read()" is somehow reading the contents of the source script, and I'm not sure why, unless I'm totally missing something obvious to expert Python users.

Thanks.

[Guy_in_Wisconsin]

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