Ben Wolfson rumjuggler at cryptarchy.org
Fri Sep 14 02:05:55 EDT 2001

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On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 04:47:42 GMT, leind at sofcom.com wrote:

>Does python have the ablitiy to open a file and write
>binary data to it?

Yes.  Use the built-in open() function.  For portability you should specify
"wb" (to specify that you're opening the file to write binary data) as the
second argument, though if you'll only use the script on Linux I understand
that simply opening the file for writing with "w" will work.

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