How to read a file byte by byte in Python and how to print a bytelist as a binary?
- by zaplec
Hi,
I'm trying to read a file byte by byte, but I'm not sure how to do that. I'm trying to do it like that:
file = open(filename, 'rb')
while 1:
byte = file.read(8)
# Do something...
So does that make the variable byte to contain 8 next bits at the beginning of every loop? It doesn't matter what those bytes really are. The only thing that matters is that I need to read a file in 8-bit stacks.
EDIT:
Also I collect those bytes in a list and I would like to print them so that they don't print out as ASCII characters, but as raw bytes i.e. when I print that bytelist it gives the result as
['10010101', '00011100', .... ]
