reading and removing first x bytes of a file

[Peter Hansen]

bart_nessux wrote:

> I have some Macbinary files on a PC. I want to recursively read these 
> files and remove the first 128 bytes of the files if they contain the 
> macbinary header info. I know how to read directories recursively, but 
> how would I read the first 128 bytes of each file in the path?

os.listdir() can return a list of the names in the path.  You
can use os.path.isfile() to check that a given name doesn't
refer to a subdirectory.

Once you've opened one of the files for reading, just use .read(128)
to get a string containing the first 128 bytes from the file.

-Peter