in over my head ascii

[Steve Holden]

nephish at xit.net wrote:
> ok, i am stuck again.
> 
> from the docs, the byte stream is supposed to look like this:
> 
> 'S' 'T' 'X'   [length indicator] [message type] [message] 'E' 'N' 'X'
> 
> the length indicator it says is a four byte integer number of a value N
>  ( N would be how long the message body is )
> 
> the message type comes from a table in the docs. In my case, the
> message type is 200. This is also supposed to be sent as  a 4 byte
> value.
> 
> so..... how do i make 200 occupy 4 bytes ?
> 

You use the struct module and make sure you specify the correct 
"endianness" - bet you didn't bargain for all this when you started!

regards
  Steve
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