Manipulating Binary Data

[ichabod801]

I would:

• Read them in as strings
  
• Split them into timestamp vs. data with string slicing
  
• Create a dictionary, with the timestamps as the keys, and the values being lists of the data for that timestamp.*
  
• Append each data point to the list for the appropriate timestamp
  
• Once all the data is read, get the keys into a list and sort it.
  
• Loop through the list, writing the keys and the data out to the file.
  

* You could maybe do this step as a list of lists, but I would only do that if you are sure the data you are reading in is in the order you want to output things in.