Well, now I tried running the script and it worked fine with the .gfx
file. Originally I was working using the IDLE, which I wouldn't have
thought would make a difference, but when I ran the script on its own
it worked fine and when I ran it in the IDLE it didn't work unless the
data was in a text
Ok, now I'm very confused, even though I just solved my problem. I
copied the entire contents of the original file (evil2.gfx) from my hex
editor and pasted it into a text file. When I read from *this* file
using my original code, everything worked fine. When I read the 21st
byte, it came up as the
> What platform? What version of Python? Have you opened the
> file in binary mode i.e. open('thefile', 'rb') ?? Show us the relevant
> parts of your code, plus what caused you to conclude that read()
> changed data on the fly in an undocumented fashion.
Yes, I've been reading and writing everyt
This is a bit of a peculiar problem. First off, this relates to Python
Challenge #12, so if you are attempting those and have yet to finish
#12, as there are potential spoilers here.
I have five different image files shuffled up in one big binary file.
In order to view them I have to "unshuffle" t
