In python, read binary file as floats at once [duplicate]

A data file binaryFile.bin was written as so in MATLAB:

stream = fopen (dst_file.c_str(),"wb");
fwrite(data,sizeof(float),4*num,stream);
fclose(stream);

I would like to retrieve this in Python. What I have tried thus far is:

fileName = '~/binaryFile.bin'
with open(fileName, mode='rb') as file: 
fileContent = file.read()

This gives me fileContent, which is a python string. (For example, the first couple samples look something like this: "94QB\\x9a\\x99\\xe9@)\\").

I simply want to read back the entire fileContent as the original array of floats. How do I do that? Thanks.