Animation.py

#Read Custom Animations 
import re
import binascii

anim_1 = (r'fire_0_anim.txt')

#repr of anim_1 " '16,\n17,\n18,\n19,\n20,\n21,\n22,\n23,\n24,\n25,\n26,\n27,\n28' "

with open(anim_1, 'rb') as anim_1_:
    anim_1_read = anim_1_.read()
anim_1_hex = binascii.hexlify(anim_1_read).decode()
# .decode() to get as string
print(anim_1_hex)

anim_1_len = len(anim_1_read)
print("fire_0 animation length is %s" % anim_1_len)

anim = re.findall('[0-9a-f]{2}', anim_1_hex)

anim_1_edit = [x for x in anim if x not in ('0d', '0a')]

always_null_byte = itertools.repeat("00")
result = [z for z1_z2 in zip(always_null_byte, anim_1_edit) for z in z1_z2]

print (result)

#this prints 
"""
'31362c0d0a31372c0d0a31382c0d0a31392c0d0a32302c0d0a32312c0d0a32322c0d0a32332c0d0a32342c0d0a32352c0d0a32362c0d0a32372c0d0a32382c0d0a32392c0d0a33302c0d0a33312c0d0a302c0d0a312c0d0a322c0d0a332c0d0a342c0d0a352c0d0a362c0d0a372c0d0a382c0d0a392c0d0a31302c0d0a31312c0d0a31322c0d0a31332c0d0a31342c0d0a31352c0d0a'
fire_0 animation length is 150
['00', '31', '00', '36', '00', '2c', '00', '31', '00', '37', '00', '2c', '00', '31', '00', '38', '00', '2c', '00', '31', '00', '39', '00', '2c', '00', ... ]
"""

fire_0_anim.txt

16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30,
31,
0,
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,