About data structure

Martin v. Loewis martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Sep 30 15:39:00 EDT 2002


malan <malan at club-internet.fr> writes:

> I need to build a data structure like this :
> 
> size	4 bytes ( example 0x0000000A )
> flag	1 byte  ( example 0x87 )
> trans   8 bytes ( example 'URTVMI1' )
> F5	3 bytes ( example 0x00125C )
> 
> How can I define that structure, format it and send it via a socket ?

Your specification is incomplete, as you don't give the byte
order. Assuming it has to be big-endian, that would be

>>> import struct
>>> struct.pack(">IB8s3b", 0xA, 0x87, "URTVMI1", 0x0, 0x12, 0x5c)
'\x00\x00\x00\n\x87URTVMI1\x00\x00\x12\\'

For details, help(struct).

HTH,
Martin



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