On 2007-05-24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You should really use the struct module for that type of conversion, but
>> you also need to know that indexing of lists and tuples starts at 0, not 1.
>
> indeed, i used to have temp = unpack('h', tBuf[1,3])
Which probably should have been
temp = unpack('h', tBuf[1:3])[0]
But that still doesn't do the same thing as your example which
only used 7 bits from each byte.
> but it was a hack (and as such a bit off ;) as i was having
> troubles casting
Python doesn't have "casting".
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