Reading/writing binary data.

[Grant Edwards]

In article <mailman.1018285938.26500.python-list at python.org>, Jeff Smith wrote:

>> I've been searching the Python (1.5) docs, but am unable to find any
>> functions to read/write binary data from/to a file.  Under the "open"
>> function I see that you can append a "b" to the mode to specify binary
>> mode, but that doesn't help me any.
>> 
>> For example, if I want to take a list of numbers like [64,66,67] and
>> write them to a file as binary, how would I do that?  I also need to
>> be able to control whether the data is written in big endian or little
>> endian format.

> The array module has everything you need. You can use the tofile and
> fromfile methods to read and write binary data, the tolist and fromlist
> methods to switch data to/from lists, and the byteswap method for swapping
> between big- and little-endian.

The struct module also allows you to convert between binary and
"internal" formats.

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