Converting Hex to decimal

Miki Tebeka miki.tebeka at zoran.com
Wed Jun 2 05:25:48 EDT 2004


Hello Dean,

> Each hex character is 8 bits. I would like to convert one byte at the
> time and pipe the converted data into a new file.
This is not tested but should be in the lines of what you're trying to
do:

from array import array
a = array("B")
a.fromstring(open("input_file", "rb").read()) # Read all file
out = open("output_file", "wb")
for bit in a:
    new_bit = convert(bit)
    out.write(new_bit)


HTH.
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