Reading binary from a file...

[KraftDiner]

Hi!
In python I'm able to read in binary data from a file.
data = file.read()  # Reads in an entire file.

However the data is 16bits per sample and python is storing the
data in a string.  How do I convert that 8bit data into a list of 16
bit integers?

Note: I want generic python lists or tupels not numpy or numeric etc
etc...