elementary tuple question. (sorry)

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:08:14 -0300, Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net>  
escribió:

> I have a tuple that I got from struct.unpack. Now I want to pass the data
> from the returned tuple to struct.pack
>
>>>> fmt
> 'l 10l 11i h 4h c 47c 0l'
>>>> struct.pack(fmt, tup)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> struct.error: required argument is not an integer
>
> What's the idiom to pass the data in tup?

Try the builtin help system:

py> help(struct.pack)
Help on function pack in module struct:

pack(fmt, *args)
     Return string containing values v1, v2, ... packed according to fmt.
     See struct.__doc__ for more on format strings.

So struct.pack(fmt, *tup) should work - try and see.

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Gabriel Genellina