Re: [Tutor] help with translating a c function to a python function

2007-07-08 Thread shawn bright
Hey thanks, i finally did get a function working. i posted it on www.bitsbam.com i did guess that the puchMsg++ ment that it was iterating through the bytes of an array. And Kent and Alan helped me get through the other parts. I am glad for all this help, because this is an issue that comes up i

Re: [Tutor] help with translating a c function to a python function

2007-07-08 Thread Tiger12506
>> i have a c function from some modbus documentation that i need to >> translate into python. >> unsigned short CRC16(puchMsg, usDataLen) >> unsigned char *puchMsg ; >> unsigned short usDataLen ; >> { >> unsigned char uchCRCHi = 0xFF ; >> unsigned char uchCRCLo = 0xFF ; >> unsigned u

Re: [Tutor] help with translating a c function to a python function

2007-07-05 Thread Alan Gauld
"shawn bright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > oh, here is what i have so far, but is not giving me the right > values > > def crc16(data): > crc_hi = 0xff > crc_lo = 0xff > for x in data: > crc_index = crc_hi ^ x So far so good.. > crc_hi = crc_lo ^ (crc_hi |

Re: [Tutor] help with translating a c function to a python function

2007-07-05 Thread shawn bright
Thanks Alan, so do you think my translation is close? i do not know a lick of c. Nope, not one line. thanks shawn On 7/5/07, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "shawn bright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > while (usDataLen––) > { > uIndex = uchCRCHi ^ *puchMsgg++ ; > u

Re: [Tutor] help with translating a c function to a python function

2007-07-05 Thread Alan Gauld
"shawn bright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote while (usDataLen––) { uIndex = uchCRCHi ^ *puchMsgg++ ; uchCRCHi = uchCRCLo ^ auchCRCHi[uIndex} ; uchCRCLo = auchCRCLo[uIndex] ; } return (uchCRCHi << 8 | uchCRCLo) ; } > this part ' auchCRCHi[uIndex}; > it looks

Re: [Tutor] help with translating a c function to a python function

2007-07-05 Thread shawn bright
oh, here is what i have so far, but is not giving me the right values def crc16(data): crc_hi = 0xff crc_lo = 0xff for x in data: crc_index = crc_hi ^ x crc_hi = crc_lo ^ (crc_hi | crc_index) crc_lo = crc_lo | crc_index return (crc_hi << 8 | c

[Tutor] help with translating a c function to a python function

2007-07-05 Thread shawn bright
hello all, i have a c function from some modbus documentation that i need to translate into python. it looks like this: unsigned short CRC16(puchMsg, usDataLen) unsigned char *puchMsg ; unsigned short usDataLen ; { unsigned char uchCRCHi = 0xFF ; unsigned char uchCRCLo = 0xFF ; unsi