How print binary data on screen

Irmen de Jong irmen.NOSPAM at xs4all.nl
Tue Mar 17 14:45:45 EDT 2009


Ehsen Siraj wrote:
> I am trying to print binary data on screen but I got the following error.
> 
> f = open('/home/ehsen/1.mp3','rb')
> g = f.read()
> print g
[...]
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: 
> unexpected code byte
> 
> please help me how i fix this thing.

One way of printing it would be:

print g.encode("hex")

but you don't say what you wanted to accomplish.
"printing" a mp3 file to the screen doesn't make much sense.

--irmen



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