stripping the first byte from a binary file

[Jeremy Sanders]

rvr wrote:

> Would someone mind showing me how to strip the first byte from a
> binary file? For some reason I can't figure this out from the binary
> file editing examples I've read. Thanks.

Do you mean something like this?

f = open('test.dat', 'rb')
f.read(1)  # read 1st byte and ignore it
rest = f.read()  # read rest

or

data = f.read()
data = data[1:] # skip 1st byte

?

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