On 15 Feb 2006 04:07:37 -0800, dementrio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I handle low-level data types in Python? > What I want to do is writing an interface to a C daemon which waits for > stuff like unsigned ints on a socket. For example, I need to craft and > decode data structures that look like this: > > 32-bit unsigned int MSG_LENGTH > 32-bit unsigned int MSG_CODE > 64-bit signed int DATA > 32-bit length + utf-8 characters STRING_DATA > etc. > > What's the right way to do this in Python?
Look at the struct module. -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list