On 2007-05-24, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> i have two string bytes i need to push into a single (short) int, like
>> so in c:
>>
>> temp = strBuf[2];
>>
>> temp = (temp<<7)+(strBuf[1]);
> You should really use the struct module for that type of conversion,
The struct module doesn't know how to deal with the OP's case
where only 7 bits are used from each byte. OTOH, if the 7 was
a typo and he really wanted to shift by 8 bits, then struct is
an option.
> but you also need to know that indexing of lists and tuples
> starts at 0, not 1.
Ah yes. I wondered about that also, but I assumed what he
acutally had was a two-byte field in a longer string.
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