binhex
— Encode and decode binhex4 filesSource code: Lib/binhex.py
This module encodes and decodes files in binhex4 format, a format allowing representation of Macintosh files in ASCII. Only the data fork is handled.
The binhex
module defines the following functions:
binhex.
binhex
(input, output)write()
and close()
method).binhex.
hexbin
(input, output)read()
and close()
methods. The resulting file is written to a file named output, unless the argument is None
in which case the output filename is read from the binhex file.The following exception is also defined:
binhex.
Error
There is an alternative, more powerful interface to the coder and decoder, see the source for details.
If you code or decode textfiles on non-Macintosh platforms they will still use the old Macintosh newline convention (carriage-return as end of line).