On Sep 4, 7:23 pm, Mats Rauhala <mats.rauh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2010-09-04, genxtech <jrmy.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello. I am still really new to python and I have a project where I > > am trying to use the data files from another program and write a new > > program with new user interface and all. My first step was to open > > one of the files in 'rb' mode and print the contents, but I am > > unfamiliar with the format. Here is what was printed to the terminal: > > > I am using Python 3.1 on a Fedora 13 box if that makes any difference. > > Any advise on how to decode the data would be greatly appreciated. > > It's difficult to elaborate with only that information. What you have > done now is opened a file in read binary mode (r = read, b = binary) and > then tried to print it. Python has escaped the data as hex (\x01) and is > basically a hex dump of the data file. > > For decoding the data, you either need to somehow figure out the format > of the data and then decode it accordingly. If you're on unix box the > 'file' command might be of help. > > If you're not on a unix box, you could check out how the file command > tries to find the type of the file. The man page for magic [1] could be > of help. Also see list of magic numbers [2] > > [1]http://linux.die.net/man/5/magic > [2]http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/oldusers/rno/Computing/File_magic.html
I am using Fedora 13. When I run the file command the response is that it is a 'data' file. If there are any tips on how to programatically figure out the format, I would greatly appreciate it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
