On 13/12/15 20:05, KP wrote:
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?
No, what is _returned_ is a list of one-byte strings.
When you call "print", then the list class's __repr__() method is called
which in turn calls the contained objects' __repr__() methods in turn -
it is those methods (in this case, they are all the string class's)
which is deciding to render ASCII printable characters as just their
value and ASCII non-printable characters using their hex notation.
E.
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