Python how to read raw binary from a file? (audio/video/text)

Question

I want to read the raw binary of a file and put it into a string. Currently I am opening a file with the \"rb\" flag and printing the byte but it\'s coming up as ASCII chara

Answer 1

to get the binary representation I think you will need to import binascii, then:

byte = f.read(1)
binary_string = bin(int(binascii.hexlify(byte), 16))[2:].zfill(8)

or, broken down:

import binascii


filePath = "mysong.mp3"
file = open(filePath, "rb")
with file:
    byte = file.read(1)
    hexadecimal = binascii.hexlify(byte)
    decimal = int(hexadecimal, 16)
    binary = bin(decimal)[2:].zfill(8)
    print("hex: %s, decimal: %s, binary: %s" % (hexadecimal, decimal, binary))

will output:

hex: 64, decimal: 100, binary: 01100100