> Help, what did you mean by the question? How does Python express the idea:
i) Produce the six bytes '\x08' '\x01\x23\x45' '\x80' '\0' at run-time when given the tuple (0x08, 0x12345, 0x80, 0). ii) Produce the six bytes '\x12' '\0\0\0' '\x24' '\0' when given the tuple (0x12, 0, 0x24, 0). iii) And so on. So far, everything I write is ugly. Help? > Looks like you ignored ... I guess you're asking me to leave the mystery of my question alone long enough to show more plainly that indeed I am trying to make sense of every word of every answer. I guess I should do that in separate replies, cc'ed back into this same thread. Please stay tuned. Thanks in advance, Pat LaVarre -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list