For my project, I need to be able to store random byte strings in a file and read the byte string again later. For example, I want to store randomByteString from the following code:
>>> from os import urandom
>>> randomByteString=urandom(8)
>>> randomByteString
b'zOZ\x84\xfb\xceM~'
What would be the proper way to do this?
Edit: Forgot to mention that I also want to store 'normal' string alongside the byte strings.
Code like:
>>> fh = open("e:\\test","wb")
>>> fh.write(randomByteString)
8
>>> fh.close()
Operate the file as binary mode. Also, you could do it in a better manner if the file operations are near one place (Thanks to @Blender):
>>> with open("e:\\test","wb") as fh:
fh.write(randomByteString)
Update: if you want to strong normal strings, you could encode it and then write it like:
>>> "test".encode()
b'test'
>>> fh.write("test".encode())
Here the fh means the same file handle opened previously.
Works just fine. You can't expect the output to make much sense though.
>>> import os
>>> with open("foo.txt", "wb") as fh:
... fh.write(os.urandom(8))
...
>>> fh.close()
>>> with open("foo.txt", "r") as fh:
... for line in fh.read():
... print line
...
^J^JM-/
^O
R
M-9
J
~G
