[Twisted-Python] Big/Little-endian problem

[Christopher Armstrong]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Xian Chen <hoganxian at gmail.com> wrote:
> In Twisted, do the user need to take care of the big/little-endian issues?

The basic Twisted protocol system is purely in terms of bytes,
represented by the Python 'str' type.

> For example, I receive a buffer via UDP which actually represents a unsinged
> int value. So, how can i convert this buffer[0:1] to unsigned int ?

Check out the 'struct' Python module,
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-struct.html

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