[egenix-users] writing binary files

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Kelly Prendergast wrote:
> Python newbie here,
> 
> I am retrieving data from SQL Server that is stored as a 144 byte
> binary. If I understand the Phyton documentation, the data is returned a
> ptyhon string type
> What is the best way to write this string to a binary file?

The short version:

open('filename.bin', 'wb').write(stringdata)

For a longer version, I'd suggest you have a look at one of
the nice Python books out there.

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