Reading integers from binary file in Python

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The read method returns a sequence of bytes as a string. To convert from a string byte-sequence to binary data, use the built-in struct module: http://docs.python.org/library/struct.html. 

import struct

print(struct.unpack('i', fin.read(4)))

Note that unpack always returns a tuple, so struct.unpack('i', fin.read(4))[0] gives the integer value that you are after.

You should probably use the format string '<i' (< is a modifier that indicates little-endian byte-order and standard size and alignment – the default is to use the platform’s byte ordering, size and alignment). According to the BMP format spec, the bytes should be written in Intel/little-endian byte order.

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