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In a message of Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:45:19 -0800, high5storage@gmail.com wr=
ites:
>Hi all,
>
>      f =3D open("stairs.bin", "rb") =

>      data =3D list(f.read(16))
>      print data
>
>returns
>
>['=3D', '\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 doe=
s Python return '=3D' and not '\x3D'?
>
>As always, thanks for any help!

0x3d is the ascii code for '=3D'