Scott David Daniels wrote:
> 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This seems to do the what I want. I did not know about array.byteswap
and sys.byteorder.
Thanks for taking the time to answer my silly question.
Ciao!
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