[Pythonmac-SIG] binary file strangeness

[Guido van Rossum]

> I'm trying to write a MIDI sysex editor (starting with working with the
> Roland GP-100) in Python and have come across a little strangeness.
> 
> Certain bytes having a value of 0x10 are being read as having a value of
> 0x13. I see the 0x10 values from Norton Disk Editor, or from reading the
> file with a Tcl script.

Sounds like you're opening binary files in text mode.  Use open(file,
"rb") to open files in binary mode.  Good luck!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)