block devices

[rick]

What's the best way to read a byte of data directly from a block device
(a scsi hard drive) on Linux using Python?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Re: block devices

rick schrieb:

What's the best way to read a byte of data directly from a block device
(a scsi hard drive) on Linux using Python?

Reading it? Using read?

f = open("/dev/foo")
f.read(1)

Diez

[rick]

Re: block devices

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:

Reading it? Using read?
>
f = open("/dev/foo")
f.read(1)
>
Diez

Wow, I didn't realize it was that simple. Thanks!