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Re: Weird list conversion

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In a message of Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:45:19 -0800, high5storage@gmail.com writes:
>Hi all,
>
>      f = open("stairs.bin", "rb") 
>      data = list(f.read(16))
>      print data
>
>returns
>
>['=', '\x04', '\x00', '\x05', '\x00', '\x01', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00']
>
>The first byte of the file is 0x3D according to my hex editor, so why does Python return '=' and not '\x3D'?
>
>As always, thanks for any help!

0x3d is the ascii code for '='

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Weird list conversion high5storage@gmail.com - 2015-12-13 11:45 -0800
  Re: Weird list conversion Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-12-13 20:57 +0100
    Re: Weird list conversion KP <kai.peters@gmail.com> - 2015-12-13 12:05 -0800
      Re: Weird list conversion Erik <python@lucidity.plus.com> - 2015-12-13 20:28 +0000
      Re: Weird list conversion Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-12-13 13:28 -0700
      Re: Weird list conversion Erik <python@lucidity.plus.com> - 2015-12-13 20:31 +0000
      Re: Weird list conversion Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-13 12:42 -0800
      Re: Weird list conversion Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 08:09 +1100
  Re: Weird list conversion Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-12-13 12:59 -0700

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