Reading binary file and looping over each byte

Question

In Python, how do I read in a binary file and loop over each byte of that file?

Answer 1

After trying all the above and using the answer from @Aaron Hall, I was getting memory errors for a ~90 Mb file on a computer running Window 10, 8 Gb RAM and Python 3.5 32-bit. I was recommended by a colleague to use numpy instead and it works wonders.

By far, the fastest to read an entire binary file (that I have tested) is:

import numpy as np

file = "binary_file.bin"
data = np.fromfile(file, 'u1')

Reference

Multitudes faster than any other methods so far. Hope it helps someone!