On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:14:13 -0000, census <cen...@no-email.de> wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:35:55 +0100, census wrote:
I've got some questions -
1) How do I read the file byte by byte 2) Should I use streams? If so
and I get my entire scrambled text in stream can I just write it to
the
binary file?
Thanks
Dave
f = open ("binaryfile", "r")
bytearray = map (ord, f.read () )
Stores the content of binaryfile in the list bytearray.
If it's a binary file, you should open it in binary mode:
f = open ("binaryfile", "rb")
Add the "b" flag to both in and out file if you prefer it:
It's not a matter of preferring. Depending on your operating system
and/or version of Python, reading a binary file without the "b" flag will
give you wrong answers.
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