[Tutor] binary file query

[Prasad, Ramit]

>If we are opening a binary file in python then do we have to use "Import struct" and do "struct.unpack" to work on the data from that binary file?
>Will we be able to process the file as text file without using struct?

You should open the file with the 'rb' parameter and then read from it as you need to. 

with open( 'filename.ext', 'rb' ) as f: # python 2.6+ syntax
    f.read( [size] ) # OR
    f.readline( [size] )

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/inputoutput.html
Start from section 7.2

Ramit


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