parse binary file

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:39:25 +0100, Peter Otten wrote:

> contro opinion wrote:
> 
>> please download the attachment ,and put in  c:\test.data
> 
> Your data didn't make it through.

Since this is a text-only newsgroup, it won't.


>> and run the folloeing code:
>> 
>> from struct import unpack
>> file_obj = open('c:\\test.data', 'r')
> 
> Open the file in binary mode to disable CRNL-to-NL translation which
> will corrupt your binary data.
[...]

>> why i can't  parse all of them??i just can get  a small  part of them.
> 
> I believe a '\x1a' byte marks the end of a text file. Maybe you've run
> into one of these.

That's Windows only, and only when reading in text mode. 



-- 
Steven