Writing binary files

[Chris Gonnerman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <leind at sofcom.com>


> I have a large amount of binary data in memory (am image)
> and I'm trying to write it to a file.  But I can't find a simple
> example showing how this is done.

You say it's an image.  What graphics module are you using?  PIL?
gdmodule? Something else?

All the standard image modules have a write or save or similar
function or method... or am I misunderstanding the problem?

> I just need to write the data "as is" to a file.
> 
> I've looked at the 'struct' module but that doesn't
> look like what I need.  Also the 'pickle' module
> appears to be used for formating binary data.  Again,
> not what I need.

You need to give us a much more concrete example.  Show us the code.
 
> Does python have the ablitiy to open a file and write
> binary data to it?
>
> I'm running under Mandrake linux using python 2.0
> 
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