Peter Otten schrieb: > g.franzkowiak wrote: > > >>tmpList = list(dataObject)[:4]) >>obj = tmpList[0]+tmpList[1]+tmpList[2]+tmpList[3]. > > > Have you tried just > > obj = dataObject[:4] > > without the intermediate list? If that failed, can you tell us the type of > the dataObject? E. g. > > >>>>print type(dataObject) > > <class '__main__.NeitherListNorString'> > > Peter >
The dataObject was read from a named pipe as an byte stream state, dataObject = win32file.ReadFile(handle, nbytes, None) print repr(dataObject) ==> '\x01\x02\x03\x04\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x0..... With Frederiks help operates this fine gerd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list