"xkenneth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > I've been attempting to write a serial program in python. I talk to > a custom designed bit of hardware that sends me back groups that are 2 > bytes in length. When i recieve them using either pySerial or USPP i'm > not sure how python interprets them. Both of the bytes should be > interpreted as one integer. I store each of the two bytes in a python > array. Here is an example of the data as printed in a terminal. > > ['\x1dz', '\xa8<', '\x89{', '}O', 'r\xaf', '\x83\xcd', '\x81\xba', > '\x00\x02', '\x00\x00', '\x00\x00', '\x00\x00'] > > As you can see it either chooses to represent one byte in hex or one in > ascii or both in hex etc. I'm just not sure how to get this into an > integer format.
Look at array and/or struct modules/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
