[Tutor] Video file metadata? (MP4/WMV)

[Alan Gauld]

"Allen Fowler" <allen.fowler at yahoo.com> wrote

> That being said, what is the correct way to parse binary files in 
> Python?

The safest way is to open in binary mode and use read() to get the 
data
then use the struct module to decode the data into python objects.
There is a very basic intro to this at the end of my file handling 
topic
in my tutorial.

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