Packing and unpacking IP addresses into 32-bit integers

Ben Gertzfield che at debian.org
Mon Aug 9 21:52:32 EDT 1999


>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Fletcher <mcfletch at vrtelecom.com> writes:

    Mike> Wouldn't it be something like: '>bbbb' or '!bbbb'

    Mike> instead (for portability to non-big-endian machines (I'm
    Mike> assuming the packed representation is supposed to have
    Mike> network byte order))?

Unfortunately Python isn't smart enough to assume that:

struct.pack('!bbbb', a, b, c, d)

means

struct.pack('!bbbb', d, c, b, a)

but it's easy enough to just change the order of the arguments, which
is what I did, since it's well-defined which order the arguments
will come in (they'll always come in a b c d and go out d c b a).

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