On Apr 28, 11:03 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > Maligree wrote: > > Hello there. > > > Since this is one of those problems that may have some painfully > > simple solution that will make me feel like a fool, I'll start of with > > this: it's _very_ late (.. yeah, it's not). > > > To the point. > > > Data returned by socket.recvfrom is a string. Obviously one that most > > of the time will contain non-printable characters. Let's say > > data[10:14] is a four byte integer. How can I convert the string > > data[10:14] to a python integer object? > > > Or perhaps there's a totally different, *Pythonic*, approach to this > > (extracting data from these packet-representing strings). C may have > > poisoned my mind. > > > Thanks for reading, hoping for some ideas. > > Use the 'unpack' function from the 'struct' module.
Ah, thanks a lot. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
