On Jul 10, 10:28 am, pycraze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi , > > I need some info about the following snippet . > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > protocol = 'NTLMSSP\000' #name > type = '\001\000' #type 1 > zeros1 = '\000\000' > > zeros2 = '\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000' > zeros3 = '\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000' > smthg1 = '0\000\000\000\000\000\000\000' # something with > chr(48) length? > smthg2 = '0\000\000\000' # something with > chr(48) lenght? > > msg1 = protocol + type + zeros1 + flags + zeros2 + zeros3 + > smthg1 + smthg2 > msg1 = base64.encodestring(msg1) > msg1 = string.replace(msg1, '\012', '') > ------------------------------------------------------- > > In the above code what does " > 000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000 " signify ? Which form of > representation is this ? > > This code is from the NTLM APS python code from sourceforge 0.98 > version .
I think redoing this code using the struct module would make the behavior and intent clearer, rather than trying to encode binary data directly into strings. -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
