Source code: Lib/binhex.py
Deprecated since version 3.9.
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)
Convert a binary file with filename input to binhex file output. The output parameter can either be a filename or a file-like object (any object supporting a write()
and close()
method).
binhex.hexbin(input, output)
Decode a binhex file input. input may be a filename or a file-like object supporting 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:
exception binhex.Error
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.
See also
Module
binascii
Support module containing ASCII-to-binary and binary-to-ASCII conversions.
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).
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