On 10-03-2015 00:55, Dave Angel wrote: > On 03/09/2015 08:45 PM, Paulo da Silva wrote: >> Hi! >> >> What is the best way to read a file that begins with some few text lines >> and whose rest is a binary stream? >> ...
> > In which version of Python? there's a huge difference between 2.x and 3.x Python 3. See the subject please. > > Generally speaking, you can treat a piece of a binary (input) file as an > encoded string, so you want to open the file as binary, locate the part > that's text, and then explicitly decode the string from that. > That's waht I did. However, I was thinking of some other more efficient and simple way. For example a command to read text and another to read bytes. For .pnm photo files I read the entire file (I needed it in memory anyway), splited a copy separated by b'\n', got the headers stuff and then used the original remaining bytes as the photo pixels. But this is very tricky! I am on linux, but if I ran this program on windows I needed to change it to "eat" also the '\r'. In the .pnm case the headers don't have special chars. They fit into ascii. But in a file who have them it would be also difficult to compute the consumed length. Thanks. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
