pack a three byte int

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Thursday 9/11/2006 22:24, p.lavarre at ieee.org wrote:

>Perhaps Python can't concisely say three-byte int ...
>
>But Python can say six-nybble hex:
>
> >>> import binascii
> >>> cdb = binascii.unhexlify('%02X%06X%02X%02X' % (0x08, 0x12345, 0x80, 0))
> >>> binascii.hexlify(cdb)
>'080123458000'

The only problem I can see is that this code is endianness-dependent; 
the suggested versions using pack(">...") not. But this may not be of 
concern to you.


-- 
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 

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