Peter Otten schrieb: > g.franzkowiak wrote: > > >>The dataObject was read from a named pipe as an byte stream >> >>state, dataObject = win32file.ReadFile(handle, nbytes, None) >>print repr(dataObject) >> ==> '\x01\x02\x03\x04\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x0..... >> >>With Frederiks help operates this fine > > > I do not doubt that. My point was that instead of the suggested > > # Fredrik > obj = "".join(list(dataObject[:4])) > > the simpler > > # me > obj = dataObject[:4] > > might work as well. I cannot test it here, but judging from > > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.3/pywin32/win32file__ReadFile_meth.html > > the resulting dataObject is a buffer and buffer slices seem to be just > strings. > > >>print repr(dataObject) >> ==> '\x01\x02\x03\x04\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x0..... > > > Hmm, that looks as if dataObject were a string -- please post the result of > > print type(dataObject) > > just to help me restore my peace of mind :-) > > Peter >
Hello Peter, was a node in my mind, the data comes as a string (with readfile always) << type(dataObject) = 'str' >> and << type(dataObject:4) = 'str' >> also ;-) I've dropped the loop with list/join and the result is the same. Thank you :-)) gerd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
