ascii2dec

[Uwe Mayer]

Uwe Mayer wrote:

> this must sound stupid to you, but I'm ages out of Python and I just can't
> find a function to convert 4 bytes of binary data to an integer value:
> 
> length=f.read(4)    # get length in binary
> length=socket.htonl(length)    # swap bytes
> 
> #convert 4 bytes to integer
 
Sorry, socket.htonl(...) already expects a number, so its:

> #convert 4 bytes to integer
> length=socket.htonl(length)    # swap bytes

i.e. 
How to convert:

length = '\x01\x00\x00\x00'

to an integer

Uwe
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