Philippe Martin wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for an algo that would convert a list such as:
Such as what? > > I'm using python to prototype the algo: this will move to C in an embedded > system where an int has 16 bits - I do not wish to use any python library. > > l1 = [1,2,3,4,6,7,8] #represents the decimal number 12345678 Does it??? How do you represent the decimal number 12349678, then? > l2 = func (l1) > # l2 = [0x1, 0x2, 0xD, 0x6, 0x8, 0x7] #represents 0x12D687 > I'm sorry, but very little of that makes any sense to me: 1. I thought BCD meant something very much like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal 2. >>> [0x1, 0x2, 0xD, 0x6, 0x8, 0x7] #represents 0x12D687 [1, 2, 13, 6, 8, 7] So [1], [2], [6] are unchanged, [3, 4] -> [13] (or maybe [3, 4, 5] -> 13), and [7, 8] -> [8,7]. I doubt very much that there's an algorithm to do that. What is the relationship between 1234(maybe 5)678 and 0x12D687??? I would expect something like this:: 0x12345678 (stored in 4 bytes 0x12, ..., 0x78) -- or 0x21436587 or 0x012345678s (where s is a "sign" nibble; stored in 5 bytes 0x01, ..., 0x8s) IOW something regular and explicable ... 3. Perhaps it might be a good idea if you told us what the *real* problem is, including *exact* quotes from the manual for the embedded system. You evidently need/want to convert from one representation of signed? unsigned? integers to another. Once we all understand *what* those representations are, *then* we can undoubtedly help you with pseudocode in the form of Python code manipulating lists or whatever. Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list