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What is a Binary File?
1. Binary files store data in binary form (computer
understandable format)
2. Binary files are used to store data such as
images, video, audio, documents, database etc.
3. In a binary file, there is no delimiter to end a
line. No internal conversion like text file are
done.
4. This is the reason binary file processing is faster
5. To process a binary file in python we use access
mode ‘b’.