ord(c) gives you decimal representation of a character. -Larry Bates
Philipp H. Mohr wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to xor the byte representation of every char in a string with > its predecessor. But I don't know how to convert a char into its byte > representation. This is to calculate the nmea checksum for gps data. > > e.g. everything between $ and * needs to be xor: > $GPGSV,3,1,10,06,79,187,39,30,59,098,40,25,51,287,00,05,25,103,44* > to get the checksum. > > > Thank you for you help. > > Phil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list