On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:58:38 -0000, vibgyorbits <bka...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm writing a tool to do some binary file comparisons.
I'm opening the file using
fd=open(filename,'rb')
# Need to seek to 0x80 (hex 80th) location
fd.seek(0x80)
# Need to read just 8 bytes and get the result back in hex format.
x=fd.read(8)
print x
This prints out garbage. I would like to know what am i missing here.
Your bytes are being interpreted as characters when you print the buffer,
and the chance of them being meaningful text is probably small. Try the
following:
for b in x:
print hex(ord(b))
Does that look more like what you were expecting?
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