Reading binary files

Rami Chowdhury rami.chowdhury at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 10:41:09 EDT 2009


The built-in file type deals with this just fine. You can simply specify  
when opening the file that it is to be opened as binary:

http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#open

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:35:09 -0700, Ronn Ross <ronn.ross at gmail.com> wrote:

> I need to read a binary file. When I open it up in a text editor it is  
> just
> junk. Does Python have a class to help with this?



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