On Jun 2, 12:04 am, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > > i'm reading bytes from a serial port, and storing it into an array. > > > each byte represents a signed 8-bit int. > > > currently, the code i'm looking at converts them to an unsigned int by > > doing ord(array[i]). however, what i'd like is to get the _signed_ > > integer value. whats the easiest way to do this? > > http://docs.python.org/library/struct.html
the struct docs is exactly what i needed to read. "unpacking" it as a signed char did the trick. thanks guys! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
