Reading file bit by bit

[Peter Otten]

Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:

> Nobody wrote:
>> On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:31:08 -0700, Richard Thomas wrote:
>> 
>>> You're reading those bits backwards. You want to read the most
>>> significant bit of each byte first...
>> 
>> Says who?
> 
> Says Python:
> 
>>>> bin(192)
> '0x11000000'

Hmm, if that's what /your/ Python says, here's mine to counter:

>>> bin(192)
'0_totally_faked_binary_00000011'

;)

Peter