Reading hex to int from a binary string

[Jack Norton]

Luc wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I read data from a binary stream, so I get hex values as characters
> (in a string) with escaped x, like "\x05\x88", instead of 0x05.
>
> I am looking for a clean way to add these two values and turn them
> into an integer, knowing that calling int() with base 16 throws an
> invalid literal exception.
>
> Any help appreciated, thanks.
>   
Hi,

Check out the ord() function. 

Example:
x = '\x34'
print ord(x)
 
output: 52

Also, if you, lets say read(4), and end up with `x = '\x05\x41\x24\x00'
you can use x[i] to address each character.  So if you
print x[1]
output: 'A'

That should be enough to get you started in the right direction. 

-Jack