Re: How to read one byte at a time in Python?

From: Garry Knight (garryknight_at_gmx.net)
Date: 03/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 01:21:00 +0000

In message <mailman.335.1079137564.19534.python-list@python.org>, Anthony
Liu wrote:

> Java has functions that read only one byte at a time,
> do we have such a function in python?

inf = open('filename', 'r')
c = inf.read(1)

Depending on the meaning of the word 'byte' in your question, you might want
to make the file mode 'rb'. 

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