Some material I prepared for a short presentation / workshop on handling binary data in python.

Some things to set up before the workshop. Get in touch with me if you are experiencing any problems.

Please make sure that you have all the below installed on your system:

• Linux / MacOS, a Linux VM or Windows Subsystem for Linux

In that Unix environment:

• Python >= 3.3
• Pip
• Poetry (optional)

If you have poetry installed:
Run poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true if you want your venv to be in <project>/.venv. To create the venv and install the dependencies, run: poetry install.

If you do not have poetry installed:
Create a venv: python3 -m venv .venv
Activate it: source .venv/bin/activate
And install the dependencies: pip install -r ./requirements.txt

Download our sample data and place it in <project>/data/.
(Not provided in GitHub.)

I highly recommend installing an IDE Like VS Code or PyCharm for the sake of easier debugging.
If you are using VS Code, you will need the ms-python extension.
If you happen to use VS Code OSS, I recommend the ms-pyright extension for static type checking and linting.

For those who love using VIM there are the vscodevim and IdeaVim (f. PyCharm) extensions.