4 byte integer

[James T. Dennis]

Paul D Ainsworth <pauldominic at nospam.supanet.com> wrote:
> Greetings everyone. I'm a relative newcomer to python and I have a technical 
> problem.

> I want to split a 32 bit / 4 byte unsigned integer into 4 separate byte 
> variables according to the following logic: -

> bit numbers 0..7 byte 1
> bit numbers 8..15 byte 2
> bit numbers 16..23 byte 3
> bit numbers 24..31 byte 4

> Each of these byte variables to contain integer data from 0 to 255 (or 0 to 
> FF in hex mode)

> I had thought that struct.unpack with an input message format of 'I' would 
> be the way to do it, but its reporting an error that it doesn't want to 
> accept an integer.

> Please can anyone advise?

 Would something like this work?

	def word2bytes(n):
	    """Given an positive integer n, return a tuple of 4 bytes from 
               n's least significant 32-bits
	    """
	    r = []
	    n &= 0xFFFFFFFFL
	    for i in range(4):
		r.append(n & 0xFF)
		n >>= 8
	    r.reverse()
	    return tuple(r)

 





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