On Jun 26, 8:59 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snipped)
> > >>> def bcdlen(*args): > > ... strlen = "%04s" % str(args[0]) > ... firstval = int(strlen[2:3]) * 16 + int(strlen[3:4]) > ... lastval = int(strlen[0:1]) * 16 + int(strlen[1:2]) > ... return "%s%s" % (chr(firstval), chr(lastval)) > ...>>> bcdlen(4546) > > 'FE' Let me add that instead of an an-close-as-possible translation from the original Perl code, one can rewrite this as: >>> def bcdlen(length): ... strlen = "%04s" % length ... return chr(int(strlen[2:4], 16)) + chr(int(strlen[0:2], 16)) which is more "Pythonic" to me. -- Hope this helps, Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
