To read a binary file, use the open('rb')
function within a context manager (with
keyword) and read its content into a string variable using f.readlines()
. You can then convert the string to a CSV using various approaches such as the csv
module.
Here’s an example to read the binary file 'my_file.man'
into your Python script:
with open('my_file.man', 'rb') as f: content = f.readlines() print(content)
Per default, Python’s built-in open()
function opens a text file. If you want to open a binary file, you need to add the 'b'
character to the optional mode
string argument.
- To open a file for reading in binary format, use
mode='rb'
. - To open a file for writing in binary format, use
mode='rb'
.
Now that the content is in your Python script, you can convert it to a CSV using the various methods outlined in this article:
🌍 Learn More: Convert a String to CSV in Python
After you’ve converted the data to the comma-separated values (CSV) format demanded by your application, you can write the string to a file using either the print()
function with file argument or the standard file.write()
approach.

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