Justin Rajewski wrote: > I need to print variables out over serial, however I need them to not be > in ASCII, ie if the variable is 5 then print 5 not "5". > > The function that writes to the serial port requires a string and I can > send non-variables out with the string "/x05" for 5.
Take a look at the chr() function. For completeness, the complementary one is ord(). However, also take a look at the 'struct' module, which is the tool of choice if you want to do other formatting operations. I seem to remember there was a third tool that can be used for similar tasks, but I forgot which it was... Uli -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
