How to Read Bytes from a file

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

 "Piet van Oostrum" <p... at cs.uu.nl> wrote:

> >>>>> "Bart Ogryczak" <B.Ogryczak at gmail.com> (BO) wrote:
>
> >BO> Any system with 8-bit bytes, which would mean any system made after
> >BO> 1965. I'm not aware of any Python implementation for UNIVAC, so I
> >BO> wouldn't worry ;-)
>
> 1965? I worked with non-8-byte machines (CDC) until the beginning of the
> 80's. :=( In fact in that time the institution where Guido worked also had
such
> a machine, but Python came later.

Those behemoths were EXPENSIVE - so it made a lot of sense to keep using
them until the point that it became obvious even to an accountant that the
maintenance cost was no longer worth it...

Would actually not surprise me if there were still a few around, doing
electricity
accounts or something.

- Hendrik