Hi all,
Newbie Python programmer here, so please be patient. I have spent all
day googling for an answer to my problem, but everything I try fails to
work (or works from the Interpreter with a set value but not from my
code with dynamic values).
Okay, here is the general gist of the problem. I am using Python to
parse an output file (from a MAK Logger but that is not really
important). Now I have some data that is contained on a line in this
file like:
80 00 00 00
Each of these numbers is a Hex byte making up a four byte (32 bit
Big-Endian) IEEE float. I have read this data into Python using
readlines and then line.split(). This gives me:
['80', '00', '00', '00']
I am then reading these in as:
wib[0] + wib[1] + wib[2] + wib[3] = 8000000 as a string
Now this is the point where I get stuck, I have tried various ways of
implementing the pack/unpack methods of the struct module but with no
luck.
One example I tried was:
wibble = struct.unpack(" f", struct.pack("l" , long(conv_str, 16)))
OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int
If I follow the examples I have found on the net using a set value of
0x80000000 in them, everything works fine from the interpreter line.
Arrrggggghhhh.
Everything has worked really easily up this point but I am now stuck
completely, I would be grateful for any help people can offer.
Regards
Ian Vincent 7 12221
<i_*******@hotm ail.com> wrote: Newbie Python programmer here, so please be patient. I have spent all day googling for an answer to my problem, but everything I try fails to work (or works from the Interpreter with a set value but not from my code with dynamic values).
Okay, here is the general gist of the problem. I am using Python to parse an output file (from a MAK Logger but that is not really important). Now I have some data that is contained on a line in this file like:
80 00 00 00
Each of these numbers is a Hex byte making up a four byte (32 bit Big-Endian) IEEE float. I have read this data into Python using readlines and then line.split(). This gives me:
['80', '00', '00', '00']
how about :
# convert to byte string
import struct
s = "".join([chr(int(c, 16)) for c in x])
v = struct.unpack(" !f", s)
or
# convert to byte string, via the array module
import array, struct
a = array.array("B" , [int(c, 16) for c in x])
v = struct.unpack(" !f", )
</F>
> # convert to byte string, via the array module import array, struct a = array.array("B" , [int(c, 16) for c in x]) v = struct.unpack(" !f", )
eh? should be:
# convert to byte string, via the array module
import array, struct
a = array.array("B" , [int(c, 16) for c in x])
v = struct.unpack(" !f", a)
</F> i_*******@hotma il.com wrote: Each of these numbers is a Hex byte making up a four byte (32 bit Big-Endian) IEEE float. I have read this data into Python using readlines and then line.split(). This gives me:
['80', '00', '00', '00']
Oh, programmers loves this kind stuff. You should get tons of answers.
##
st = '80 00 00 00'
import binascii
import struct
s = ''.join([binascii.a2b_he x(s) for s in st.split()])
v = struct.unpack(" f", s)[0]
print v
##
regards Max M
--
hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/
IT's Mad Science
Max M wrote: Oh, programmers loves this kind stuff. You should get tons of answers.
data = '80 00 00 00'
import Image
v = Image.fromstrin g("F", (1, 1), data, "hex", "F;32BF").getpi xel((0, 0))
</F>
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:57:02 +0100, rumours say that "Fredrik Lundh"
<fr*****@python ware.com> might have written: how about:
# convert to byte string import struct s = "".join([chr(int(c, 16)) for c in x]) v = struct.unpack(" !f", s)
I think that the third line in the snippet above could also be:
s = "".join(x).deco de("hex")
I am not sure I remember in which version of Python the hex codec was
added, but it is handy.
--
TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best.
"Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." (from RFC1958)
I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually...
Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote: s = "".join(x).deco de("hex")
I am not sure I remember in which version of Python the hex codec was added, but it is handy.
Of course, binascii could do this since 2.0 or so, but not
having to import another module *is* nice: 'ff12'.decode(' hex')
'\xff\x12'
import binascii binascii.unhexl ify('ff12')
'\xff\x12'
Thanks for pointing it out, Christos.
Max M <ma**@mxm.dk> wrote in news:41bf121e$0 $280
$e*******@dread 12.news.tele.dk : ## st = '80 00 00 00'
import binascii import struct
s = ''.join([binascii.a2b_he x(s) for s in st.split()]) v = struct.unpack(" f", s)[0] print v ##
This one worked great for what I was trying to do.
Thanks to everybody for your help.
TTFN
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