Re: [Tutor] question about a number and bytes.

2008-01-29 Thread shawn bright
ok, was using pyserial, but was not using struct.pack. thanks sk On Jan 29, 2008 3:16 PM, Michael Langford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Use pyserial: > > http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/ > > Use struct.pack: > > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-struct.html > > The format string will depend whethe

Re: [Tutor] question about a number and bytes.

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Langford
Use pyserial: http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/ Use struct.pack: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-struct.html The format string will depend whether you need little or big endian. --Michael On Jan 29, 2008 4:13 PM, shawn bright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your reply. > i ne

Re: [Tutor] question about a number and bytes.

2008-01-29 Thread shawn bright
Thanks for your reply. i need to do this in python because python is what scripting language our data I/O system is written in. i am writing a command out over a serial port that tells an RTU to change part of it's program. I am not sure what you mean by using it in any other python context, this i

Re: [Tutor] question about a number and bytes.

2008-01-29 Thread Tiger12506
> Hello there all. > > I have a need to make a hi byte and lo byte out of a number. > > so, lets say i have a number 300, and need this number to be > represented in two bytes, how do i go about that? First question. Why would you need to do this in python? Second question. If you could do that,

[Tutor] question about a number and bytes.

2008-01-29 Thread shawn bright
Hello there all. I have a need to make a hi byte and lo byte out of a number. so, lets say i have a number 300, and need this number to be represented in two bytes, how do i go about that? thanks for any tips, sk ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.or