2012/10/31 anatoly techtonik :
> I wonder why Python uses signed chars for bytes
> http://docs.python.org/2/library/ctypes.html#ctypes.c_byte
c_int is signed, c_uint is unsigned.
similarly c_byte is signed, and c_ubyte is unsigned.
> Windows implements BYTE as unsigned char, and it is in the same
On 2012-10-31, at 18:44 , anatoly techtonik wrote:
> I wonder why Python uses signed chars for bytes
> http://docs.python.org/2/library/ctypes.html#ctypes.c_byte
That's not Python, that's ctypes. struct[0] has no "bytes" it uses
"char" for everything.
If I had to guess, it would be because "char"
The thing that made me wonder is here - http://bugs.python.org/issue16376
When I inspect contents of Windows structures, I get negative values that
are not present in MSDN.
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anatoly t.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 7:44 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder why Python uses signed chars f
Hi,
I wonder why Python uses signed chars for bytes
http://docs.python.org/2/library/ctypes.html#ctypes.c_byte
This is a Java thing, but Java doesn't have unsigned types at all
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Java#Unsigned_integer_types
Windows implements BYTE as unsigned char, and it
