"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > f = open("filename", "rb") > s = f.read() > sub = "\x00\x00\x01\x00" > count = s.count(sub) > print count
That's a lot of lines. This is a bit off topic, but I just can't stand unnecessary local variables. print file("filename", "rb").read().count("\x00\x00\x01\x00") -- Björn Lindström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Student of computational linguistics, Uppsala University, Sweden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list