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Hi, everybody.

I use win32com package to call WinHTTP COM methods.
One of them is 'Send'. I can pass string parameter to 'Send' method from
python - it's OK, but to send binary data i need somehow pass in 'Send'
method data of _byte array_ type(Visual Basic type). Does anybody know
how to mimic that 'byte array' type of Visual Basic in Python (i need to
pass big chunks of binary data in 'Send')?
I tried struct.pack, but that doesn't seem to be an option.

Thanks in advance.
Your help is very appreciated.

Best regards,
Ruslan

Jul 18 '05 #1
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Ruslan wrote:
I use win32com package to call WinHTTP COM methods.
One of them is 'Send'. I can pass string parameter to 'Send' method from
python - it's OK, but to send binary data i need somehow pass in 'Send'
method data of _byte array_ type(Visual Basic type). Does anybody know
how to mimic that 'byte array' type of Visual Basic in Python (i need to
pass big chunks of binary data in 'Send')?
I tried struct.pack, but that doesn't seem to be an option.


Strings are probably what you are looking for... in Python a string
is basically an array of bytes.
Jul 18 '05 #2
Hi !

But COM's string parameters are in Unicode, not bytes array.
And win32Com convert auto strings parameters in Unicode.

Ruslan : see, also, cTypes


Jul 18 '05 #3

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