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I want to be able to get a file(not just text files, I mean video files, word files, exe files etc...) and read its data in python. Then , I want to convert it to pure binary (1s and 0s) and then be able to decode that too.

I have tried just reading the file with

with open('a.mp4', 'rb') as f:
    ab = f.read()

and it seemed to work, but my function of

def toBinary(a):
  l,m=[],[]
  for i in a:
    l.append(ord(i))
  for i in l:
    m.append(int(bin(i)[2:]))
  return m

does not work on it, because I think ord() only works on text??? Not really sure

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  • What exactly do you want? Print the file content in binary format like "10011011 00101000"? Commented Apr 9, 2023 at 9:55
  • Yes, I want to do that Commented Apr 9, 2023 at 10:10
  • You neither need ord nor int for this. Therefore you also don't need the list l. Commented Apr 9, 2023 at 10:17
  • Does this answer your question? How can I convert bytes object to decimal or binary representation in Python? Commented Apr 9, 2023 at 10:34

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