On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:15 PM, <danwgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> How to pack a string variable of length 1 as a char using struct.pack?
> The following works fine:
> p = struct.pack('c', b'1')
>
> Whereas this causes an error "char format requires a bytes object of
> length 1":
> s = '1'
> p = struct.pack('c', s)
>
> I need to pack a variable rather than a literal.
>
I assume you are using Python 3. In Python 3, s = '1' is a *unicode
string*, not a *bytes object*.
You need to convert your string to a bytes object by encoding it.
However, be mindful that some characters may actually require multiple
bytes to be encoded:
struct.pack('c', s.encode('ascii'))
(You can of course use e.g. 'utf-8' as the encoding here)
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