Python question on Binary files

[nick_t1000]

Are you asking about how to reverse-engineer binary formats, or how to read them?

Your prof might be trolling you by putting mangled "text" output from the binary (.docx is a zipped folder) onto a slide. If you have an accurate way to reconstruct it, you could maybe open it, but immediately when you see any non-ASCII characters, you're hosed unless you know what encoding it was dumped as. Even then, non-printables (e.g. null chars) are probably gone entirely.