I am new here to try to solve one of my interesting questions in World of Tanks. I heard that every battle data is reserved in the client's disk in the Wargaming.net folder because I want to make a batch of data analysis for our clan's battle performances. image

It is said that these .dat files are a kind of json files, so I tried to use a couple of lines of Python code to read but failed.

import json
f = open('ex.dat', 'r', encoding='unicode_escape')
content = f.read()
a = json.loads(content)
print(type(a))
print(a)
f.close()

The code is very simple and obviously fails to make it. Well, could anyone tell me the truth about that?

Added on Feb. 9th, 2022 After I tried another set of codes via Jupyter Notebook, it seems like something can be shown from the .dat files

import struct
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import io


with open('C:/Users/xukun/Desktop/br/ex.dat', 'rb') as f:
    fbuff = io.BufferedReader(f)
    N = len(fbuff.read())
    print('byte length: ', N)

    with open('C:/Users/xukun/Desktop/br/ex.dat', 'rb') as f:
        data =struct.unpack('b'*N, f.read(1*N))

The result is a set of tuple but I have no idea how to deal with it now.