Python 3.6.5 Documentation >  "binhex" — Encode and decode binhex4 files

"binhex" — Encode and decode binhex4 files
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**Source code:** Lib/binhex.py

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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.

Notes
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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).