Hi,
I am looking for the best way to convert a string of length 1 (= 1
character as string) to integer that has the same value as numeric
representation of that character. Background: I am writing functions
abstracting endianness, e.g. converting a string of length 4 to the
appropriate integer value (e.g. '\x01\x00\x00\x00' = 2**24 for big
endian memory, 2**0 for little endian memory). For this, I need to
know the numeric value of each byte and sum them according to
endianness.
I thought that something like int('\x01') might work, provided the
argument is string of length 1, but that throws an error:
>>> int('\x12')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: invalid literal for int():
The code I want to write looks like this:
mem = '\x11\x22\x33\x44'
factor = 1
sum = 0
for byte in mem:
sum += int(byte) * factor
factor *= 2**8
Could you please tell me how to achieve what I want in Python? (it
would be straightforward in C)
Thanks for any suggestions,
Boris Dušek
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