[I can't see Hannah's posting(s) with my news client (Thunderbird), nor
with Google Groups]
Joe Riopel wrote:
> Since you're unpacking it with the 'd' format character I am assuming
> a "doubleword" field is a double.
Given Hannah has sensibly stated up front that she is a noob, I would
assume
Since you're unpacking it with the 'd' format character I am assuming
a "doubleword" field is a double. You said you had 113 of them in the
binary file. You should be doing something like this:
file = open('data.bin', 'rb')
file.seek(0)
raw = file.re
On Jan 29, 2008 1:35 PM, Hannah Drayson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It imports as a string of rubbish...
> i.e.
>
>
> >>> text = f.read()
> >>> print text
> ?F?C??y??>?
> @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@???/???8[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]@?Q???Q???Q???Q???Q??ǑR[???Q?
On Jan 29, 2008 1:59 PM, Joe Riopel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When reading the file, try using
> file = open('data.bin', 'rb')
> file.seek(0)
> raw = file.read()
>
> Do the unpack on "raw".
Ignore this, sorry for the confusion.
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Hi all,
I have a .bin file which python just won't play ball with-
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong- is it simply incompatible?
I've read it fine using a C program - its 113 doubleword fields- apparently its
possible to handle these in python in a very similar way to C.
I can provide the c
