String --> int

[Romain Guy]

    Assuming fsock is a File objet, when I do:
var = fsock.read(4)
I get a String. I'd like to convert it into an integer. I haven't found any
method for this so I built this one:

def _buildInteger(bytes):
  if len(bytes) != 4:
    return -1
  else:
    return ord(bytes[0]) | ord(bytes[1]) << 8 | ord(bytes[2]) << 16 |
ord(bytes[3]) << 24

It works perfectly but I'd like to use one internal to Python if possible...

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