On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 3:41:03 PM UTC-5, krishna...@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks for your reply Ned!
>
> I tried this your suggestion and this is what it complains...
>
> os_inst_bytes = struct.pack('7BI512s', 0, 0x51, 0x10, 5, 0, 0xD, 0x80, 0, '')
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> error
> Traceback (most recent call last)
> <ipython-input-6-d36f45a8d3e6> in <module>()
> ----> 1 os_inst_bytes = struct.pack('7BI512s', 0, 0x51, 0x10, 5, 0, 0xD,
> 0x80, 0, "")
>
> error: argument for 's' must be a bytes object
>
OK, looks like you are using Python 3 (it helps to specify these things
up-front). Use b"" to get an empty byte-string.
> In [7]:
>
>
> And about the bytearray() call, I want to pass a mutable object to the IOCTL
> to be able to get the data back from the driver. Without bytearray(), the
> ioctl with mutable flag set to 1 would complain.
OK, keep the bytearray call if it helps.
--Ned.
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