"Bryan Fodness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> First, I get different outputs from the two methods below.
>
> for line in file('file.dcm', 'rb'):
> print line
This prints each line in turn.
> inp = open('file.dcm', 'rb')
> print inp.readlines()
This prints a list of lines
> Second, I have never tried to parse a binary file. I could use a
> few hints
> to get started.
Take a look at my File handling topic which gives a simple example.
(about 2/3 of the way down)
Basically the key is to know what the data looks like and define a
struct pattern to match. Note that the data may well not be
accessible using readline, you may need to use read with an length
argument. See help(read)...
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