"Elizabeth Finn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > binary format, and then convert some of the values into > integer values. These values can range from 1 to 4 bytes.
See the struct module, and for an exampole the binary file sidebar in the file handling topic of my tutor. But caveat: struct needs to know the sizes and types of data you are reading in advance. > .... for some of the 2-byte numbers I get only the first byte > and first half of the second byte - for instance: 'x06\x33' > comes out as 'x063'. This is very confusing Look closely and you will see that Python is telling you that the 06 represents the hex value of the byte. The second byte has no \x so is a character. The ASCII value of 0x33 is '3'... >>> hex(ord('3')) '0x33' >>> > ...but "06 52" becomes "065". Any ideas? Not on that one... x52 is 'R'... and chr(52) is '4' -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor