Need elegant way to cast four bytes into a long
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Fri Aug 8 11:54:38 EDT 2003
wsh> I have been getting what I want in this sort of manner :
wsh> l = 0L
wsh> l = a[0]
wsh> l += a[1] << 8
wsh> l += a[2] << 16
wsh> l += a[3] << 24
wsh> but I think that's too wordy. Is there a more intrinsic and
wsh> elegant way to do this?
You mean like this:
l = long(a[0] + a[1] << 8 + a[2] << 16 + a[3] << 24)
You can use struct.unpack as well, though I'd be hard-pressed to get the
details correct. You'd be better off with "pydoc struct".
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