Alfred Bovin wrote:
> I'm working on something where I need to read a (binary) file bit by bit
> and do something depending on whether the bit is 0 or 1.
Well, smallest unit you can read is an octet/byte. You then check the
individual digits of the byte using binary masks.
f = open(...)
data = f.read()
for byte in data:
for i in range(8):
bit = 2**i & byte
...
Uli
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