On May 11, 2007, at 4:25 AM, Paul D Ainsworth wrote: > Greetings everyone. I'm a relative newcomer to python and I have a > technical > problem. > > I want to split a 32 bit / 4 byte unsigned integer into 4 separate > byte > variables according to the following logic: - > > bit numbers 0..7 byte 1 > bit numbers 8..15 byte 2 > bit numbers 16..23 byte 3 > bit numbers 24..31 byte 4 > > Each of these byte variables to contain integer data from 0 to 255 > (or 0 to > FF in hex mode) > > I had thought that struct.unpack with an input message format of > 'I' would > be the way to do it, but its reporting an error that it doesn't > want to > accept an integer. > > Please can anyone advise?
Have a look at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/ Recipe/113799 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
