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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>18.13. binhex — Encode and decode binhex4 files — Python 2.7.5 documentation</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/default.css" type="text/css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/pygments.css" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript"> var DOCUMENTATION_OPTIONS = { URL_ROOT: '../', VERSION: '2.7.5', COLLAPSE_INDEX: false, FILE_SUFFIX: '.html', HAS_SOURCE: true }; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/underscore.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/doctools.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/sidebar.js"></script> <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="Search within Python 2.7.5 documentation" href="../_static/opensearch.xml"/> <link rel="author" title="About these documents" href="../about.html" /> <link rel="copyright" title="Copyright" href="../copyright.html" /> <link rel="top" title="Python 2.7.5 documentation" href="../index.html" /> <link rel="up" title="18. 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Internet Data Handling</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="document"> <div class="documentwrapper"> <div class="bodywrapper"> <div class="body"> <div class="section" id="module-binhex"> <span id="binhex-encode-and-decode-binhex4-files"></span><h1>18.13. <a class="reference internal" href="#module-binhex" title="binhex: Encode and decode files in binhex4 format."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">binhex</span></tt></a> — Encode and decode binhex4 files<a class="headerlink" href="#module-binhex" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p>This module encodes and decodes files in binhex4 format, a format allowing representation of Macintosh files in ASCII. On the Macintosh, both forks of a file and the finder information are encoded (or decoded), on other platforms only the data fork is handled.</p> <div class="admonition note"> <p class="first admonition-title">Note</p> <p class="last">In Python 3.x, special Macintosh support has been removed.</p> </div> <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-binhex" title="binhex: Encode and decode files in binhex4 format."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">binhex</span></tt></a> module defines the following functions:</p> <dl class="function"> <dt id="binhex.binhex"> <tt class="descclassname">binhex.</tt><tt class="descname">binhex</tt><big>(</big><em>input</em>, <em>output</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#binhex.binhex" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Convert a binary file with filename <em>input</em> to binhex file <em>output</em>. The <em>output</em> parameter can either be a filename or a file-like object (any object supporting a <tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">write()</span></tt> and <tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">close()</span></tt> method).</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="function"> <dt id="binhex.hexbin"> <tt class="descclassname">binhex.</tt><tt class="descname">hexbin</tt><big>(</big><em>input</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>output</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#binhex.hexbin" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Decode a binhex file <em>input</em>. <em>input</em> may be a filename or a file-like object supporting <tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">read()</span></tt> and <tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">close()</span></tt> methods. The resulting file is written to a file named <em>output</em>, unless the argument is omitted in which case the output filename is read from the binhex file.</p> </dd></dl> <p>The following exception is also defined:</p> <dl class="exception"> <dt id="binhex.Error"> <em class="property">exception </em><tt class="descclassname">binhex.</tt><tt class="descname">Error</tt><a class="headerlink" href="#binhex.Error" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Exception raised when something can’t be encoded using the binhex format (for example, a filename is too long to fit in the filename field), or when input is not properly encoded binhex data.</p> </dd></dl> <div class="admonition-see-also admonition seealso"> <p class="first admonition-title">See also</p> <dl class="last docutils"> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="binascii.html#module-binascii" title="binascii: Tools for converting between binary and various ASCII-encoded binary representations."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">binascii</span></tt></a></dt> <dd>Support module containing ASCII-to-binary and binary-to-ASCII conversions.</dd> </dl> </div> <div class="section" id="notes"> <span id="binhex-notes"></span><h2>18.13.1. Notes<a class="headerlink" href="#notes" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>There is an alternative, more powerful interface to the coder and decoder, see the source for details.</p> <p>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).</p> <p>As of this writing, <a class="reference internal" href="#binhex.hexbin" title="binhex.hexbin"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">hexbin()</span></tt></a> appears to not work in all cases.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h3><a href="../contents.html">Table Of Contents</a></h3> <ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#">18.13. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">binhex</span></tt> — Encode and decode binhex4 files</a><ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#notes">18.13.1. 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