[Tutor] revisiting struct and bytes again.

[Luke Paireepinart]

shawn bright wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> this time my question is a bit simpler.
> i can make a byte a string or number or whatever now. Up to the number 
> 255.
> I now have a problem with something that comes in as a 4 byte 
> representation of
> the number of seconds since 1970.
> I have been using ord(byte) to make sense of the messages so far, but 
> i don't know how to add bytes greater than 255.
>
> the c program that sends us these defines the variable as an unsigned 
> long int.
>
> anyone know how to make these four bytes a number of seconds ?
>
if you used struct it'd be easier, but...
do you know what order the bytes are in?
if they're big-endian just ord each individually and then you'll have a 
4 digit base 256 number
convert this to base 10 so you can see what it is in regular integers
and use the time module to convert.
sorry I can't give more detail, I have to run, i'm late for class.
-Luke
> thanks
>
> sk
>
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