How to read an integer value from a binary file?

[Jeff Epler]

As your 'for' loop shows, the number of items in the slice [2:5] is only
3, not 4.

Maybe you want the slice [2:6] instead.

>>> x = "xx\xb6/\0\0"
>>> struct.unpack('i', x[2:6])
(12214,)

Jeff
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