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

If you are willing to use NumPy and bitstream, you can do

>>> from numpy import *
>>> from bitstream import BitStream
>>> raw = '\xbe\x00\xc8d\xf8d\x08\xe4.\x07~\x03\x9e\x07\xbe\x03\xde\x07\xfe\n'
>>> stream = BitStream(raw)
>>> stream.read(raw, uint8, len(stream) // 8)
array([190,   0, 200, 100, 248, 100,   8, 228,  46,   7, 126,   3, 158,
         7, 190,   3, 222,   7, 254,  10], dtype=uint8)