[Tutor] Need help with structure unpacking module
Alan Gauld
alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Tue Mar 18 16:12:06 CET 2008
"Alan Gauld" <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote
>> >>>first = struct.unpack('cccc', '\x02\x00')
>> error: unpack requires a string argument of length 4
>
> And here you asked for 54 characters but only gave
> it two bytes. And the two byes were 02 and 00 which
> are not printable characters.
Oops!
This should of course have been 4 characters. And
the printableness is an observation but does not
have any direct effect on the viability of the operation.
Alan G
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