hello, I want to change n bytes of a binary file

[Ganesan Rajagopal]

>>>>> "Fredrik" == Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:

> if you want to XOR the bytes, you can do something like:

>     import array
>     b = array.array("B", a)
>     for i in range(len(b)):
>         b[i] = b[i] ^ 255
>     b = b.tostring()

> or

>     b = "".join([chr(ord(c) ^ 255) for c in a])

I wish python would soon get a byte array type. For now I find numarray to
be very convenient to do stuff like this.

import numarray
b = (numarray.array(a, type = 'u1') ^ 255).tostring()

It's also significantly faster for large byte array sizes.

Ganesan

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