On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > loial wrote: > >> How do I read a binary file, find/identify a character string and replace >> it with another character string and write out to another file? >> >> Its the finding of the string in a binary file that I am not clear on. > > That's not possible. You have to convert either binary to string or string > to binary before you can replace. Whatever you choose, you have to know the > encoding of the file.
If it's actually a binary file (as in, an executable, or an image, or something), then the *file* won't have an encoding, so you'll need to know the encoding of the particular string you want and encode your string to bytes. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
