Help reading binary data from files

Gabriel Genellina gagsl-py at yahoo.com.ar
Tue Feb 6 17:28:52 EST 2007


En Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:01:20 -0300, jeff <jeff at kalikstein.com> escribió:

> I am stumped trying to read binary data from simple files.  Here is a
> code snippet, where I am trying to simply print little-endian encoded
> data from files in a directory.
>
>     for name in os.listdir(DOWNLOAD_DIR):
>                 filename =  s.path.join(DOWNLOAD_DIR, name)
>                 if os.path.isfile(filename):
>                         f = open(filename, 'rb')
>                         while True:
>                                 ele = unpack('<h', f.read(2))[0]
>                                 print ele
>
>
> When the code runs, 0 is always the data printed, but the data files
> are not all zero.

Looks fine to me...

-- 
Gabriel Genellina




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