read text file byte by byte

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:16:42 -0800, daved170 wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> I need to read a text file byte after byte. Eache byte is sent to a
> function that scramble it and I need to write the result to binary file.
> 
> I've got some questions -
> 1) How do I read the file byte by byte 

f = open(filename, 'rb')
f.read(1)

will read a single byte.




2) Should I use streams? 

What do you mean by "streams"?



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Steven


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Steven