Might be useful for beginners to binary file I/O in Python and reverse engineering of data formats: DBFReader.py [1], which is part of my xtopdf toolkit [2] is

Might be useful for beginners to binary file I/O in Python and reverse engineering of data formats: DBFReader.py [1], which is part of my xtopdf toolkit [2] is a program that uses struct.unpack() multiple times to decode the fields in a DBF (XBASE) file. [1] https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf/src/default/DBFReader.py https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf/src/default/DBFReade... [2] http://slides.com/vasudevram/xtopdf http://slides.com/vasudevram/xtopdf I had first written a Pascal program to read and dump DBF file data after reverse-engineering the DBF format, based on some sketchy info I had access to, years ago. Later wrote the same program in C, and later still in Python, i.e. DBFReader.py .