Hello,
I want to parse a binary file in python. Does
python have some built in methods for doing this easily?
Any links to example code would be nice..
Thanks
Andreas R. 5 9766
Andreas Røsdal wrote: I want to parse a binary file in python. Does python have some built in methods for doing this easily? Any links to example code would be nice..
Depends on the kind of parsing you want to do. Python
can naturally represent binary files in string objects,
e.g.
f = open("binaryfil e.bin", "rb") # notice the b for binary mode
data = f.read()
f.close()
You can then look at the individual bytes by index. People
often use the struct and array modules to simplify processing.
Whether or not you would call this "parsing", I don't know
(for me, "parsing" implies presence of a context-free or
regular grammar of some kind).
Regards,
Martin
Python's primary tool for this is the "struct" module. See the stanard
library documentation for more info.
Also, remember always to open files in binary mode ("rb") so that people
running on windows don't get bizarre failures.
Jeff
Hello Andreas, I want to parse a binary file in python. Does python have some built in methods for doing this easily?
Apart from struct and array module already suggested if you want
specific structures I recommend reading them in C and exposing the
interface using swig.
This way you can access structure members by name and not by offset.
HTH.
Miki
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: Andreas Røsdal wrote: I want to parse a binary file in python. Does python have some built in methods for doing this easily? Any links to example code would be nice..
Depends on the kind of parsing you want to do. Python can naturally represent binary files in string objects, e.g.
f = open("binaryfil e.bin", "rb") # notice the b for binary mode data = f.read() f.close()
You can then look at the individual bytes by index.
Thanks. Just wanting to know if I understood your answer correctly;
will the data variable above be an array of binary data,
eg. data[220] == 0, and data[221] == 1 etc?
Andreas Røsdal
Andreas Røsdal <an******@stud. ntnu.no> writes: On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: Andreas Røsdal wrote: I want to parse a binary file in python. Does python have some built in methods for doing this easily? Any links to example code would be nice..
Depends on the kind of parsing you want to do. Python can naturally represent binary files in string objects, e.g.
f = open("binaryfil e.bin", "rb") # notice the b for binary mode data = f.read() f.close()
You can then look at the individual bytes by index.
Thanks. Just wanting to know if I understood your answer correctly; will the data variable above be an array of binary data, eg. data[220] == 0, and data[221] == 1 etc?
No, it's a string, but you can get what you want by using the `ord'
builtin function or the array module or the struct module (or probably
various other ways).
Cheers,
mwh
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