On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Steven Woody <narkewo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Michiel Overtoom <mot...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> On Monday 22 December 2008 03:23:03 Steven Woody wrote: >> >>> 2. char buf[] = {0x11, 0x22, 0x33, ... } >>> >>> What's the equivalent representation for above in Python? >> >>>>> buf="\x11\x22\33" >>>>> for b in buf: print ord(b) >> ... >> 17 >> 34 >> 27 >>>>> >> > > Hi, Michiel > > I thing "\x11\x22\x33" in python is not the {0x11, 0x22, 0x33} in C. > Since, a string in python is immutable, I can _not_ do something like: > b[1] = "\x55". > > And, how about char buf[200] in my original question? The intension > is to allocate 200 undefined bytes in memory. Thanks.
You want the `bytearray` type referred to in PEP 3137 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3137/). However, I believe `bytearray` is only available in Python 3.0 Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list