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Re: using binary in python

From kent nyberg <kent@z-sverige.nu>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: using binary in python
Date 2015-11-10 16:29 -0500
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On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 10:20:25PM -0800, Larry Hudson via Python-list wrote:
> Your questions are somewhat difficult to answer because you misunderstand
> binary.  The key is that EVERYTHING in a computer is binary.  There are NO
> EXCEPTIONS, it's all binary ALL the time.  The difference comes about in how
> this binary data is displayed and manipulated.  I want to emphasize, ALL the
> DATA is binary.
> 

Thanks alot for taking the time.
I get it now. I sort of, but not fully, misunderstood the conecpt of binary files. 
The thing I was after; and the thing Im playing with now after a more succesfull time with google, 
is writing more specific things to a file than just strings.
English is not my native language so please forgive me, but
I wanted to write specifc 16bit codes, and read them. And later play with bitwise operations on them. Sort of.
It might not make sense at all, but hey..  it doesnt have to.
Thanks anyway. :)

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using binary in python kent nyberg <kent@z-sverige.nu> - 2015-11-08 16:27 -0500
  Re: using binary in python Jussi Piitulainen <harvesting@makes.email.invalid> - 2015-11-09 11:58 +0200
  Re: using binary in python Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2015-11-09 22:20 -0800
    Re: using binary in python Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-11-10 15:14 -0500
      Re: using binary in python mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2015-11-10 20:36 +0000
        Re: using binary in python Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-11-10 16:02 -0500
          OT: Re: using binary in python mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2015-11-10 22:17 +0000
        Re: using binary in python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-11-10 21:22 +0000
        Re: using binary in python Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-11-10 19:03 -0500
        Re: using binary in python Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-11-10 19:04 -0500
      Re: using binary in python Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2015-11-10 19:53 -0800
    Re: using binary in python Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-11-10 15:44 -0500
    Re: using binary in python kent nyberg <kent@z-sverige.nu> - 2015-11-10 16:29 -0500
      Re: using binary in python Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-11-11 22:32 +0100
    Re: using binary in python Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 17:19 -0700

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