biner wrote:
> I am using a program that has to read binary data from files coming
> from different machines. The file are always written with big endian.
Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
[Scott David Daniels wrote]
How about sys.byteorder?
This doesn't help, as he wants to read files from varying endianess - what
the _current_ endianess is doesn't matter here.
But, in fact, he says the files are always big endian. So, code like
the following should address his problem. Note I use type 'h' as an
example so I can easily read samples.
import sys, array
f =open('huge.dat')
v = array.array('h') # Or whatever data type
v.fromfile(f, 4096)
f.close()
if sys.byteorder == 'little':
v.byteswap()
--Scott David Daniels
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