David Ascher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> John Mark Agosta wrote:
>
> >
> > Where is there a Python function to write binary data directly
> > instead of ascii (or other encodings)? The pickle module binary
> > format is specific to pickle - that doesn't count, I want to be able
>
> > to specify the individual bytes written to a file.
>
> Use 'struct.pack' and then write to a file opened in binary mode
> open('foo.dat', 'wb').write(struct.pack(...))
>
Yes, that is probably the most elegant way of doing it.
You can also just specify bytes in a string and write it to the file,
like this:
open('foo.dat', 'wb').write('\x0\x1')
(Which is just what struct.pack in a more elegant fashion)
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Vennlig hilsen
Syver Enstad
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