You probably want to use the "struct" module:
In [3]: struct.unpack(">q", "\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x05")
Out[3]: (5,)
In [4]: struct.pack(">q", 5)
Out[4]: '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x05'
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Allan Spiegel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to write some Hbase test cases in python using the thrift client.
> I'm having trouble figuring out how to convert the Hbase values (byte arrays)
> into their original form, a Long.
>
> While we're at it, I'm sure I'll need to convert in the other direction at
> some point (long to byte array)
>
> Thanks!
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Todd Lipcon
Software Engineer, Cloudera
