how many bytes in an int

[Grant Edwards]

On 2004-08-09, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:

> The struct module is the only thing I know about.  If you're
> worried about the "C" types in the struct module changing
> underneat you, you could do a pure Python implimentation of
> "python-int" to/from DWORD. It's utterly trivial and shouldn't
> take more than one or two lines of code.

def toLittleEndianDWORD(i):
    return ''.join(map(chr,[x&0xff for x in [i,i>>8,i>>16,i>>24]]))

def fromLittleEndianDWORD(s):
    return ord(s[0]) + (ord(s[1])<<8) + (ord(s[2])<<16) + (ord(s[3])<<24)

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