Using Python How can I read the bits in a byte?

Question

I have a file where the first byte contains encoded information. In Matlab I can read the byte bit by bit with var = fread(file, 8, \'ubit1\'), and then retrie

Answer 1

With numpy it is easy like this:

Bytes = numpy.fromfile(filename, dtype = "uint8")
Bits = numpy.unpackbits(Bytes)

More info here:
http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.fromfile.html