Reading files binary

[Fredrik Lundh]

Thomas Weholt <thomas at bibsyst.no> wrote:
> I want to read a file and treat the data from it in a binary fashion. In
> fact, I want to compute the running time and bitrate etc. of an
> mp3-file, so if anybody has done this let me know. If not, I guess I`ll
> have to do it myself, eventhough that`ll take forever.
> 
> I need to read a given number of bytes, check the no. x bit for a value,
> check no. y bit etc. Is there a module for this or can it be done
> python?

here's one:
http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/~ben/python/

PST-0.2 is likely to have similar capabilities
(at least tag reading).

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