struct unpack help?

[Emile van Sebille]

Scherer, Bill
> Here's a sample string of the struct:
>
> sampleStructString = "_782c1a08_p_void"
>
> I know that the struct defines only two unsigned shorts.  That
> would imply (to me, anyway) a format of 'HH'. But calcsize of
> that is 4, while my string is 16 bytes. So
>

If you know the expected results of the sample, you can pass in the
appropriate slice:

>>> struct.unpack('HH', s[1:5])
(14391, 25394)

>>> struct.unpack('II', s[1:9])
(1664235575L, 942694705L)

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Emile van Sebille
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