How to pack a string variable of length 1 as a char using struct.pack?
Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Tue Aug 5 08:28:13 EDT 2014
danwgrace at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> How to pack a string variable of length 1 as a char using struct.pack?
> The following works fine:
> p = struct.pack('c', b'1')
Here you use a byte string of length 1, b'1'.
> Whereas this causes an error "char format requires a bytes object of
> length 1":
> s = '1'
> p = struct.pack('c', s)
Here you use a Unicode string of length 1, '1'.
Do this instead:
s = b'1'
p = struct.pack('c', s)
--
Steven
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