On 5/23/2011 1:20 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
In fact, I feel like I would want to push in the opposite direction:
don't treat one-byte bytes slices less like integers; I wish I could
more easily treat n-byte sequences _more_ like integers! :). More
protocols have 2-byte or 4-byte network-endian packed integers
embedded in them than have individual tag bytes that I want to examine.
So are you thinking that bytes([01,56])[:2] == 120 ? Or more along the
lines of a .to_int() method?
I believe that such things can be handled by the struct module.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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