vibgyorbits <bka...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
Are you missing anything? Perhaps those bytes, when printed in your terminal's encoding, *are* garbage. Are you expecting them to be encoded text, or something else? > Basically, I am trying to read 8 bytes from location 0x80 from a > binary file called "filename" You have successfully done that. What else do you want to do with those bytes once read? Perhaps a better question: What goal are you trying to accomplish? -- \ “Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “Wuh, I think | `\ so, Brain, but wouldn't anything lose its flavor on the bedpost | _o__) overnight?” —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
