On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:28:32 -0000, Tino Wildenhain <t...@wildenhain.de>
wrote:
Rhodri James wrote:
On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:58:38 -0000, vibgyorbits <bka...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I'm writing a tool to do some binary file comparisons.
I'm opening the file using
fd=open(filename,'rb')
# Need to seek to 0x80 (hex 80th) location
fd.seek(0x80)
# Need to read just 8 bytes and get the result back in hex format.
x=fd.read(8)
print x
This prints out garbage. I would like to know what am i missing here.
Your bytes are being interpreted as characters when you print the
buffer, and the chance of them being meaningful text is probably small.
Try the following:
for b in x:
print hex(ord(b))
better:
print x.encode("hex")
Encodings make my head hurt :-) While there are programmatic purposes
I'd leap at the "hex" encoder for, it doesn't make for the most human-
readable output. I'll stick with the for loop, if you don't mind.
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