[Pythonmac-SIG] binary file strangeness

[Rod Morehead]

Bill Dozier writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I'm trying to write a MIDI sysex editor (starting with working with the
 > Roland GP-100) in Python and have come across a little strangeness.
 > 
 > Certain bytes having a value of 0x10 are being read as having a value of
 > 0x13. I see the 0x10 values from Norton Disk Editor, or from reading the
 > file with a Tcl script.
 > 
 > Anyone else see something like this?

You might want to try opening the file with the binary "b" flag added.

file=open("foopath", "rb")

Thanks,

-- Rod Morehead                     
   rmore@onramp.net