How to read one byte at a time in Python?

[Anthony Liu]

Yes, during file input, I think that read(1) should
satisfy my needs.  Although in some cases, I will have
to do read(2) for Chinese characters.

Thanks

--- Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> Anthony Liu wrote:
> 
> > Java has functions that read only one byte at a
> time,
> > do we have such a function in python?
> 
> Skip assumed you meant during user input.  Is that
> what you meant, or 
> did you mean during input from a file or something? 
> read(1) would do 
> that, of course...
> 
> -Peter
> -- 
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