Reading file bit by bit

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/7/2010 6:20 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
>>     data = f.read()
>>     for byte in data:
>>         for i in range(8):
>>             bit = 2**i&  byte
>>             ...
>
> Correction: Of course you have to use ord() to get from the single-element
> string ("byte" above) to its integral value first.

In Py3 (OP did not specify), a binary file is read as bytes, which is a 
sequence of ints, and one would have to not use ord() ;=)

tjr