I am trying to save some data obtained in Python to a binary file that one could read using C. The problem is that strings in Python and C are encoded differently, which creates unnecessary mess while reading the file.
Create a file using Python:
from array import array
string = "test"
text_array = array('u', list(string))
output_file = open('test_file.bin', 'wb')
text_array.tofile(output_file)
output_file.close()
Read the same file using C:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main()
{
FILE *file_pointer = fopen("test_file.bin", "rb");
char *symbol;
fread(symbol, sizeof(char), 16, file_pointer);
char * text = (char * ) malloc( 4 * sizeof(char) );
for(int j = 0; j < 4; j++) text[j] = symbol[4 * j];
printf("%s \n", text);
fclose(file_pointer);
return 0;
}
Ideally, I would like to save the text "test" using Python in a way that it takes 4 bytes, not 16 bytes, and so the C-code for reading would be cleaner.
I have tried to convert Unicode to ANSII in Python, but it is not clear how to proceed further with writing.
