On Jan 20, 2006, at 7:37 PM, Sheila wrote:
> --On January 20, 2006 7:24:47 PM -0800 Sheila King
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> --On January 20, 2006 9:18:26 PM -0600 Silas Hundt
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
> ...
>>> Receive input, cut that string up into individual characters (ALL
>>> characters, including spaces), put them in order into a list, then
>>> pull them out in order to convert them to a number.
> ...
>>>>> s = "This is a string."
>>>>> list(s)
>> ['T', 'h', 'i', 's', ' ', 'i', 's', ' ', 'a', ' ', 's', 't', 'r',
>> 'i',
>> 'n', 'g', '.']
>
> I'm not sure what numbers exactly you want to convert the
> characters to,
> but the one that springs to my mind are the ordinals for each
> character.
> So, if that's what you want, you could further do this:
>
>>>> chars = list(s)
>>>> chars
> ['T', 'h', 'i', 's', ' ', 'i', 's', ' ', 'a', ' ', 's', 't', 'r',
> 'i', 'n',
> 'g', '.']
>>>> ords = map(ord, chars)
>>>> ords
> [84, 104, 105, 115, 32, 105, 115, 32, 97, 32, 115, 116, 114, 105,
> 110, 103,
> 46]
You don't need that intermediate list, strings are iterable.
If you want the big endian byte representation as a big number, you
could do something like this:
>>> chars = 'asdf'
>>> sum([ord(c) << (8L * i) for i, c in enumerate(chars[::-1])])
1634952294L
>>> struct.unpack('>I', 'asdf')[0] # verify the result
1634952294L
>>> chars = 'This is a string.'
>>> sum([ord(c) << (8L * i) for i, c in enumerate(chars[::-1])])
28722506059135649064412913099795503933230L
You can also cheat by (ab)using built-in functionality in strange ways
>>> long('This is a string.'.encode('hex'), 16)
28722506059135649064412913099795503933230L
Little endian is the almost the same..
>>> chars = 'asdf'
>>> sum([ord(c) << (8L * i) for i, c in enumerate(chars)])
1717859169L
>>> struct.unpack('<I', 'asdf')[0] # verify the result
1717859169L
>>> chars = 'This is a string.'
>>> sum([ord(c) << (8L * i) for i, c in enumerate(chars)])
15790472653304512835830923089317093533780L
>>> long('This is a string.'[::-1].encode('hex'), 16)
15790472653304512835830923089317093533780L
You will need some kind of translation table if you want a value
other than the ord, unless it's something like hex which has built-in
support...
-bob
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