On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.s...@t-online.de> wrote: > Am 27.05.2013 17:30, schrieb Ned Batchelder: >> >> On 5/27/2013 10:45 AM, Mok-Kong Shen wrote: >>> >>> From an int one can use to_bytes to get its individual bytes, >>> but how can one reconstruct the int from the sequence of bytes? >>> >> The next thing in the docs after int.to_bytes is int.from_bytes: >> http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/stdtypes.html#int.from_bytes > > > I am sorry to have overlooked that. But one thing I yet wonder is why > there is no direct possibilty of converting a byte to an int in [0,255], > i.e. with a constrct int(b), where b is a byte.
The bytes object can be viewed as a sequence of ints. So if b is a bytes object of non-zero length, then b[0] is an int in range(0, 256). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
