From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-06-20T03:19:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Unpacking signed shorts and integers with specified endianness



On Jun 18, 4:35 pm, Phrogz <g...@refinery.com> wrote:

<snip>

> 1) I see "l" (lowercase L) which is 4 bytes treated as a signed
> integer...but in 'native' endian order. Does String.unpack not provide
> a way to unpack a 4-byte signed integer with a specified endianness?
>
> 2) I see "s" which is 2 bytes treated as a signed integer...but in
> 'native' endian order. Does String.unpack not provide a way to unpack
> a 2-byte signed integer with a specified endianness?

See the 'N', 'n', 'V' and 'v' directives. There are equivalent
directives for floats as well - 'E', 'e', 'G' and 'g'.

Regards,

Dan