How to read one byte at a time in Python?

[Anthony Liu]

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


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[Garry Knight]

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

In message <mailman.335.10 79137564.19534. python-list@python.org >, Anthony
Liu wrote:
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> Java has functions that read only one byte at a time,
> do we have such a function in python?[/color]

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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[Peter Hansen]

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

Anthony Liu wrote:
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> Java has functions that read only one byte at a time,
> do we have such a function in python?[/color]

Skip assumed you meant during user input. Is that what you meant, or
did you mean during input from a file or something? read(1) would do
that, of course...

-Peter