BCD List to HEX List

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <5S8zg.1553$W93.658 at dukeread05>, Philippe Martin wrote:

> I'm looking for an algo that would convert a list such as:
> 
> I'm using python to prototype the algo: this will move to C in an embedded
> system where an int has 16 bits - I do not wish to use any python library.
> 
> l1 = [1,2,3,4,6,7,8] #represents the decimal number 12345678
> l2 = func (l1)
> # l2 = [0x1, 0x2, 0xD, 0x6, 0x8, 0x7] #represents 0x12D687

def func(x):
    result = list(x)
    result[2:4] = [0xd]
    result[-1], result[-2] = result[-2], result[-1]
    return result

l1 = [1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8]
l2 = func(l1)
print l2

And now please describe you problem a little better.  ;-)

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch