problem with logic in reading a binary file

[hdante]

On Mar 30, 4:31 am, John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
> On Mar 30, 3:58 pm, hdante <hda... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mar 29, 3:44 pm, "Bryan.Fodn... at gmail.com"
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> > <Bryan.Fodn... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello,
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> > > I am having trouble writing the code to read a binary string.  I would
> > > like to extract the values for use in a calculation.
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> > > Any help would be great.
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> >  I'm too lazy to debug your binary string, but I suggest that you
> > completely throw away the binary file and restart with a database or
> > structured text. See, for example:
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> >  http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML
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> >  If you have some legacy binary file that you need to process, try
> > creating a C program that freads the binary file and printfs a text
> > equivalent.
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> ... and that couldn't be done faster and better in Python??

 No. A C struct is done faster and better than python (thus, the
correctness check is faster in C). Also, chances are high that there's
already an include file with the binary structure.