how to do reading of binary files?

[jvdb]

On 8 jun, 15:19, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_... at gmx.net> wrote:
> In <5ct0evF31n73... at mid.uni-berlin.de>, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
>
>
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> > jvdb schrieb:
> >> True. But there is another issue attached to the one i wrote.
> >> When i know how much this occurs, i know the amount of pages in the
> >> file. After that i would like to be able to extract a given amount of
> >> data:
> >> file x contains 20 <0C>. then for example i would like to extract from
> >> instance 5 to instance 12 from the file.
> >> The reason why i want to do this: The 0C stands for a pagebreak in PCL
> >> language. This way i would be absle to extract a certain amount of
> >> pages from the file.
>
> > And? Finding the respective indices by using
>
> > last_needle_position = 0
> > positions = []
> > while last_needle_position != -1:
> >      last_needle_position = contents.find(needle, last_needle_position+1)
> >      if last_needle_position != -1:
> >          positions.append(last_needle_position)
>
> > will find all the pagepbreaks. then just slice contents appropriatly.
> > Did you read the python tutorial?
>
> Maybe splitting at '\x0c', selecting/slicing the wanted pages and joining
> them again is enough, depending of the size of the files and memory of
> course.
>
> One problem I see is that '\x0c' may not always be the page end.  It may
> occur in "rastered image" data too I guess.
>
> Ciao,
>         Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

Hi,

your last comment is also something i have noticed. There are a number
of occasions where this will happen. I also have to deal with this.
I will dive into this on monday, after this hot weekend.

cheers,
Jeroen