Jan 3, 2012 · I find particularly difficult reading binary file with Python. Can you give me a hand? I need to read this file, which in Fortran 90 is easily read by. int*4 n_particles, n_groups real*4 …

Reading binary file in Python and looping over each byte New in Python 3.5 is the pathlib module, which has a convenience method specifically to read in a file as bytes, allowing us to iterate …

for rec in inh: reads one line at a time -- not what you want for a binary file. Read 4 bytes at a time (with a while loop and inh.read(4)) instead (or read everything into memory with a single …

When you read from a binary file, a data type called bytes is used. This is a bit like list or tuple, except it can only store integers from 0 to 255. Try: file_size = fin.read(4) file_size0 = …

Sep 6, 2018 · Binary files still support line-by-line reading, where file.readline() will give you the binary data up to the next \n byte. Just open the file as binary, and read one line. Valid UTF-16 …

Oct 15, 2010 · Try using the bytearray type (Python 2.6 and later), it's much better suited to dealing with byte data. Your try block would be just: ba = bytearray(fh.read()) for byte in ba: …

Jan 25, 2016 · Reading a file in python is trivial (as mentioned above); however, it turns out that if you want to read a binary file and decode it correctly you need to know how it was encoded in …

Jul 6, 2017 · Here, we open the file as a binary file using the 'rb' option in open. Then, we construct our ndarray with the proper shape and dtype to fit our read buffer. We then reduce …

Actually it looks like you're trying to read a list (or array) of structures from the file. The idiomatic way to do this in Python is use the struct module and call struct.unpack() in a loop—either a …

Firstly, before this question gets marked as duplicate, I'm aware others have asked similar questions but there doesn't seem to be a clear explanation. I'm trying to read in a binary file …