On 2007-02-06, jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am stumped trying to read binary data from simple files. Here is a > code snippet, where I am trying to simply print little-endian encoded > data from files in a directory. > > for name in os.listdir(DOWNLOAD_DIR): > filename = s.path.join(DOWNLOAD_DIR, name) > if os.path.isfile(filename): > f = open(filename, 'rb') > while True: > ele = unpack('<h', f.read(2))[0] > print ele > > > When the code runs, 0 is always the data printed, but the data files > are not all zero. > > Any quick tips?
What are the f.read(2) calls returning? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Hello, GORRY-O!! I'm at a GENIUS from HARVARD!! visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list