piping out binaries properly

[Mike Meyer]

Andy Leszczynski <leszczynscyATnospam.yahoo.com.nospam> writes:
> I have got following program:
>
> import sys
> import binascii
> from string import *
> sys.stdout.write(binascii.unhexlify("41410A4141"))
>
>
> when I run under Unix I got:
>
> $ python u.py > u.bin
> $ od -t x1 u.bin
> 0000000 41 41 0a 41 41
>
> and under Windows/Cygwin following:
>
> $ python u.py > u.bin
> $ od -t x1 u.bin
> 0000000 41 41 0d 0a 41 41
> 0000006
>
> The question is how can I pipe out binary content properly and platform
> independently?

It's not normal to write binary content to stdout - you normally write
it to a file. Open the file with open(name, 'wb') to write binaries.

There doesn't appear to be any way to retroactively change the mode on
a file. Which is probably a good thing.

    <mike
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