Newbie - converting binary data to ASCII text ?

[Skip Montanaro]

    > I'm completely new to python and I've got problem reading binary data
    > file.  When I read a file with read(), the binary data aren't
    > converted.

Check out the struct module:

    http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-struct.html

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