Which method out of the following will allow the read operation from a Binary…

Concept

In the NCERT / CBSE Class 12 Computer Science course, binary files are handled with the pickle module. Serialisation is done with pickle.dump() to write an object to a binary file, and pickle.load() to read (de-serialise) an object back. In this curriculum the data is not 'read' but loaded, and not 'written' but dumped.

Application

To read from a binary file, the file is opened in binary-read mode and the object is retrieved with the load() method of the pickle module:

1. Import the module: import pickle.

2. Open the file in binary-read mode: f = open('data.dat', 'rb').

3. Read the stored object: obj = pickle.load(f) — this returns the original Python object.

Cross-check / Contrast

• input takes a line typed at the keyboard (standard input) and returns a string — it never touches a file.

• accept is not a Python file-handling method at all; no such built-in exists for files.

• read is the generic byte-stream method on a file object; while a file opened in 'rb' technically supports it, the NCERT binary-file convention pairs reading specifically with load(), which mirrors dump().