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Only the data fork is handled.</p> <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-binhex" title="binhex: Encode and decode files in binhex4 format."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">binhex</span></code></a> module defines the following functions:</p> <dl class="function"> <dt id="binhex.binhex"> <code class="descclassname">binhex.</code><code class="descname">binhex</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>input</em>, <em>output</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><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 <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">write()</span></code> and <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">close()</span></code> method).</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="function"> <dt id="binhex.hexbin"> <code class="descclassname">binhex.</code><code class="descname">hexbin</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>input</em>, <em>output</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><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 <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">read()</span></code> and <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">close()</span></code> methods. The resulting file is written to a file named <em>output</em>, unless the argument is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> 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><code class="descclassname">binhex.</code><code class="descname">Error</code><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 seealso"> <p class="admonition-title">See also</p> <dl class="simple"> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="binascii.html#module-binascii" title="binascii: Tools for converting between binary and various ASCII-encoded binary representations."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">binascii</span></code></a></dt><dd><p>Support module containing ASCII-to-binary and binary-to-ASCII conversions.</p> </dd> </dl> </div> <div class="section" id="notes"> <span id="binhex-notes"></span><h2>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> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h3><a href="../contents.html">Table of Contents</a></h3> <ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">binhex</span></code> — Encode and decode binhex4 files</a><ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#notes">Notes</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h4>Previous topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="base64.html" title="previous chapter"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">base64</span></code> — Base16, Base32, Base64, Base85 Data Encodings</a></p> <h4>Next topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="binascii.html" title="next chapter"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">binascii</span></code> — Convert between binary and ASCII</a></p> <div role="note" aria-label="source link"> <h3>This Page</h3> <ul class="this-page-menu"> <li><a href="../bugs.html">Report a Bug</a></li> <li> <a href="https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.7/Doc/library/binhex.rst" rel="nofollow">Show Source </a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index" >index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index" >modules</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="binascii.html" title="binascii — Convert between binary and ASCII" >next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="base64.html" title="base64 — Base16, Base32, Base64, Base85 Data Encodings" >previous</a> |</li> <li><img src="../_static/py.png" alt="" style="vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -1px"/></li> <li><a href="https://www.python.org/">Python</a> »</li> <li> <span class="language_switcher_placeholder">en</span> <span class="version_switcher_placeholder">3.7.4</span> <a href="../index.html">Documentation </a> » </li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="index.html" >The Python Standard Library</a> »</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-2"><a href="netdata.html" >Internet Data Handling</a> »</li> <li class="right"> <div class="inline-search" style="display: none" role="search"> <form class="inline-search" action="../search.html" method="get"> <input placeholder="Quick search" type="text" name="q" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$('.inline-search').show(0);</script> | </li> </ul> </div> <div class="footer"> © <a href="../copyright.html">Copyright</a> 2001-2019, Python Software Foundation. <br /> The Python Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation. <a href="https://www.python.org/psf/donations/">Please donate.</a> <br /> Last updated on Jul 13, 2019. <a href="../bugs.html">Found a bug</a>? <br /> Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 2.0.1. </div> </body> </html>