How to read a file byte by byte in Python?

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Hi,

I'm trying to read a file byte by byte, but I'm not sure how to do that. I'm trying to do it like that:

file = open(filename, 'rb')
while 1:
   byte = file.read(8)
   # Do something...

So does that make the variable byte to contain 8 next bits at the beginning of every loop? It doesn't matter what those bytes really are. The only thing that matters is that I need to read a file in 8-bit stacks.

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