Manipulating binary data in Python

Question

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:

Answer 1

To print it, you can do something like this:

print repr(data)

For the whole thing as hex:

print data.encode('hex')

For the decimal value of each byte:

print ' '.join([str(ord(a)) for a in data])

To unpack binary integers, etc. from the data as if they originally came from a C-style struct, look at the struct module.