Byte oriented data types in python

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    Ravi> packet_type (1 byte unsigned) || packet_length (1 byte unsigned) ||
    Ravi> packet_data(variable)

    Ravi> How to construct these using python data types, as int and float have
    Ravi> no limits and their sizes are not well defined.

Take a look at the struct and ctypes modules.

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