how to convert from network to host byte order

[Philipp Hagemeister]

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Evan wrote:
>>> inp='\x04\x00'
>>> out = socket.ntohs(struct.unpack('H',inp[:2])[0]))
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: argument 1 must be string or read-only buffer, not int

Your approach is nearly right. First of all, you have to tell
struct.unpack it should unpack from network order ("!"):

>>> struct.unpack('!H', inp)[0]
1024

Then you want to repack it in host byte order. Use "=" for that.

>>> out = struct.pack('=H', struct.unpack('!H', inp)[0])
>>> out
'\x00\x04'

For more information, look for "Size and alignment" in
http://docs.python.org/library/struct.html.

Regards,

Philipp Hagemeister
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