On Jun 1, 3:55 pm, Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried and tried... > > I'd like to read in a binary file, convert it's 4 byte values into > floats, and then save as a .txt file. > > This works from the command line (import struct); > > In [1]: f = open("test2.pc0", "rb") > In [2]: tagData = f.read(4) > In [3]: tagData > Out[3]: '\x00\x00\xc0@' > > I can then do the following in order to convert it to a float: > > In [4]: struct.unpack("f", "\x00\x00\xc0@") > Out[4]: (6.0,) > > But when I run the same code from my .py file: > > f = open("test2.pc0", "rb") > tagData = f.read(4) > print tagData > > I get this (ASCII??): > „@
Remembering to put that struct.unpack() call in your module might help ;-) George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list