Trouble converting hex to decimal?

[Steve Holden]

Earl Eiland wrote:

> I'm trying to process the IP packet length field, as recorded by pcap
> (Ethereal) and recovered using pcapy.  When I slice out those bytes, I
> get a value that shows in '\x00' format, rather than '0x00'.  Neither
> int() nor eval() are working.  How do I handle this?
> 
> Earl Eiland
> 

You could either reconstruct the value yourself from the ord() values of 
the individual bytes, or look at the struct module which can help you 
with this kind of decoding task.

regards
  Steve
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