i want to get more familiar with these file formats. i have read the documentation, but now i want to write some code. I use python, so i was hoping someone around here could help me out with some code. one thing that has stopped me was the problem with NULL bytes.

some more information i would like, would be about, how long is the header in .mix files. i try to read say the first 128 bytes, but i cant, because there are some NULL bytes(Again, someone proficient in python would be lots of help, i am proficient with the language, just not this part(i havent done any byte reading/writing before)). same thing with .shp's and such. any help would be greatly appreciated!