Hi
I am receiving a string over a socket connection. The string may be
either line and value delimited ascii, or formated binary. The skeleton
of the code which handles the data is:
buffer = socket.recv(1000)
lines = buffer.split(linedelim)
for line in lines:
if datatype == 'binary':
if len(line) == binaryrecordsize:
values = unpack(formatin,line)
else:
print('error')
else:
values = line.split(signaldelim)
My problem arises when handling data which may be either big or little
endian. The endianess is handled properly when unpacking each line of
data from the buffer but I was not sure how to handle the process if
splitting the buffer into individual lines using the line delimiter.
The problem was first encountered when unpacking a formated binary
buffer which had \xBA\xBA as the line delimiter. The above code worked
fine most of the time but occasionally an \xBA would crop up as the last
byte of the line becasue the byte order was different than the default
assumed for the buffer.
Thanks
Robert Clement
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