Manipulating binary data in Python
- by Dominic Bou-Samra
I am opening up a binary file like so:
file = open("test/test.x", 'rb')
and reading in lines to a list. Each line looks a little like:
'\xbe\x00\xc8d\xf8d\x08\xe4.\x07~\x03\x9e\x07\xbe\x03\xde\x07\xfe\n'
I am having a hard time manipulating this data. If I try and print each line, python freezes, and emits beeping noises (I think there's a binary beep code in there somewhere). How do I go about using this data safely? How can I convert each hex number to decimal?
