Is Python suitable for some binary file editing?

[David Bolen]

Tim Hammerquist <tim at vegeta.ath.cx> writes:

> I'd have preferred:
> 
> Replace 2 bytes in place beginning at offset 100 (101st byte):
> 
>     f = open('text_input', 'r+b')
>     f.seek(100)
>     f.write(chr(123) + chr(0x80))
>     f.seek(0,2)
>     f.close()

That would work too, but not for the original request, which was to
have a separate copy:

David Rollo <drollo at cns.net.au> wrote:
> The file conversion is simply making the same change to a handful of
> characters at a particular offset, and saving under a new filename.

so I don't think he wanted to modify the original files.

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