what the hell does
this mean?
everything I've read so far has at least made some kind of sense to me. this just left me dumbfounded. tried looking it up in the docs. still dumbfounded.
stared at it for about 40 minutes. made a reddit post. still don't understand.
moved ahead in the book anyway, book making sense again. just that random page of gibberish completely over my head. something to do with binary. anybody wanna take a stab at ELI5ing it for me?
i mean, i get that its a way of writing to a file. but I don't understand what pack does. the output doesn't look like 1s and 0s to me so how is it binary? why does it get those numbers out of the list? >i4sh seems to be some kind of attribute, what does it mean???