rvr wrote: > Would someone mind showing me how to strip the first byte from a > binary file? For some reason I can't figure this out from the binary > file editing examples I've read. Thanks.
Do you mean something like this? f = open('test.dat', 'rb') f.read(1) # read 1st byte and ignore it rest = f.read() # read rest or data = f.read() data = data[1:] # skip 1st byte ? -- Jeremy Sanders http://www.jeremysanders.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list