Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >kettle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> # pack $length as a 32-bit network-independent long >> my $len = pack('N', $length); >[...] >> the sticking point seems to be the $len variable. >Use len = struct.pack('!L', length) in Python. See >http://docs.python.org/lib/module-struct.html for details.
Don't use "len = ..." -- shadowing the builtin "len" is asking for trouble. The OP actually avoided this pitfall in his attempt at a Python solution, translating "$len" to "leng". -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomeþ se bera eadward ofdun hlæddre heafdes bæce bump bump bump
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