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I'm using Python to recreate a program that have been written in Fortran 95, the program opens a binary file, containing only float numbers, and read a specific value, it works just fine in Fortran, when I execute the code, I get 284.69 for example. Although, when I try to do the same in Python, reading the entire first line of the file, I get characters like these:

Y{�C�x�Cz~�C�x�C�j�C�r�C�v�Ch�Ck�CVx�C

Here is how I open the file and read the values:

f = open(args.model_files[0], "r").readlines() print str(f[0])

I can't provide a file as example, because it is too big, but I affirm that there is only float numbers.

I would like to at least understand what type of characters I'm getting, or what I'm doing wrong when opening the file, any suggestion is welcome.

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  • If file is binary you probably should use 'rb' mode Commented May 21, 2018 at 18:44
  • Check this out stackoverflow.com/questions/6286033/… Commented May 21, 2018 at 18:45
  • @MoxieBall that helped a lot, thank you! Commented May 21, 2018 at 18:52
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