>No *need* but, often convenient, regardless of whether the data was
>written by a C struct or not.(*) It is a way to interpret binary data in
>terms of fundamental data types such as ints, floats, strings etc.
>Trying to convert raw bytes representing floats into a floating point
>number witho
On 17/11/11 14:55, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
It means that no need to use the 'Struct' module for binary file read,
right?
Its not necessary but if the data does not already have a file handling
module then the struct module is a very convenient way of accessing the
data.
It really depends on
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From: Shirkhedkar, Dhanashri [mailto:dhanashri.shirkhed...@honeywell.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:58 PM
To: Prasad, Ramit
Subject: RE: binary file query
Thanks for replying.
It means that no need to use the 'Struct' module for binary file read,
right?
===
>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 yo
On 14/11/11 05:34, Shirkhedkar, Dhanashri wrote:
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?
That depends but in general the answer is no.
But it all depends on what is in the file. If it is a
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?
Thanks,
Dhanashri
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