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<section id="welcome-to-byteparsing-s-documentation">
<h1>Welcome to byteparsing’s documentation!<a class="headerlink" href="#welcome-to-byteparsing-s-documentation" title="Permalink to this heading"></a></h1>
<p>Byteparsing is a package for <strong>mixed text and binary</strong> parsing in Python. The main driver for developing this package was to write a parser for binary OpenFOAM files. The binary file format in OpenFOAM is “special”. It is the same as the ASCII based text