Michael Torrie was kind enough to say: > Of course any time you send coherent numbers over the network, I highly > recommend you use what's called network byte order. In C, you'd use the > htonl() call, and then when pulling it off the wire on the other end > you'd use ntohl(). If you don't then you will have problems when the > endianness is different between the hosts. Standard convention (even in > the MS word) is to use big-ending across the network. I'm sure python > has some convention in the struct module for dealing with this.
Not in the struct module; such functions are available in the socket module, and should be employed indeed. -- Alan Franzoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Remove .xyz from my email in order to contact me. - GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C77 9DC3 BD5B 3A28 E7BC 921A 0255 42AA FE06 8F3E -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
