On Sunday, 13 December 2015 11:57:57 UTC-8, Laura Creighton wrote:
> In a message of Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:45:19 -0800, KP writes:
> >Hi all,
> >
> > f = open("stairs.bin", "rb")
> > data = list(f.read(16))
> > print data
> >
> >returns
> >
> >['=', '\x04', '\x00', '\x05', '\x00', '\x01', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00',
> >'\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00']
> >
> >The first byte of the file is 0x3D according to my hex editor, so why does
> >Python return '=' and not '\x3D'?
> >
> >As always, thanks for any help!
>
> 0x3d is the ascii code for '='
I am aware of that - so is the rule that non-printables are returned in hex
notation whereas printables come in their ASCII representation?
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