Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>kettle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> # pack $length as a 32-bit network-independent long
>> my $len = pack('N', $length);
>[...]
>> the sticking point seems to be the $len variable.
>Use len = struct.pack('!L', length) in Python. See
>http://docs.python.org/lib/module-struct.html for details.
Don't use "len = ..." -- shadowing the builtin "len" is asking for
trouble. The OP actually avoided this pitfall in his attempt at a
Python solution, translating "$len" to "leng".
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