Hi-
I am having a VERY odd problem with unpacking right now. I'm reading
data from a binary file and then using a very simple struct.unpack to
get a long. Works fine on my MacBook, but when I push it to a Linux
box,it acts differently and ends up pewking.
here's the code snippet:
fread.seek(0,0)
tmp_rebuild = fread.read()
fread.close()
tmp_long = tmp_rebuild[0:4]
print tmp_long.encode ('hex')
print repr(tmp_long)
unpacked_long = struct.unpack(' I', tmp_rebuild[0:4])[0]
print 'unpacked_long: %s' % unpacked_long
my MacBook produces:
1ec6f3b4
'\x1e\xc6\xf3\x b4'
unpacked_long: 516354996
but on the linux box the same code produces:
1ec6f3b4
'\x1e\xc6\xf3\x b4'
unpacked_long: 3035874846
the data looks to be the same, but the unpacking seems to treat it
differently.
Has anyone an idea of why this happens???
Thanks-
J.
4  1437 
"jasonwiene r" schrieb
>
I am having a VERY odd problem with unpacking right now.
I'm reading data from a binary file and then using a very
simple struct.unpack to get a long. Works fine on my MacBook,
but when I push it to a Linux box,it acts differently and
ends up pewking.
[...]
the data looks to be the same, but the unpacking seems to
treat it differently.
Probably little-endian vs. big-endian issue:
>>s
'\x1e\xc6\xf3\x b4'
>>struct.unpack ('<I', s)
(3035874846L,)
>>struct.unpack ('>I', s)
(516354996L,)
See help(struct) for further information.
This seems to imply that the Mac, although running now on Intel
processors, is still big-endian.
HTH
Martin
On 16 Mar, 18:23, "Martin Blume" <mbl...@freesur f.chwrote:
This seems to imply that the Mac, although running now on Intel
processors, is still big-endian.
Or maybe the struct module thinks big-endian is native to all Macs? It
could be a bug.
"sturlamold en" schrieb
>
This seems to imply that the Mac, although running now
on Intel processors, is still big-endian.
Or maybe the struct module thinks big-endian is native
to all Macs? It could be a bug.
Dunno, I'm on thin ice here. Never used a Mac.
Maybe the underlying C library thinks that all Macs are
big-endian?
I don't think this qualifies as a bug, but I am astonished
that the struct module does not tell you whether you are
big endian, you have to find out yourself with
struct.unpack(' @I', s)[0]==struct.unpack (">I", s)[0]
Anyway, when handling binary data across machines, I think
it is proper to explicitly specify the endian-ness and to
do sanity-checking of the results.
Regards
Martin
Completely helped! Working as expected now.
Thanks. You really got me out of a bind!
J.
On Mar 16, 10:23 am, "Martin Blume" <mbl...@freesur f.chwrote:
"jasonwiene r" schrieb
I am having a VERY odd problem with unpacking right now.
I'm reading data from a binary file and then using a very
simple struct.unpack to get a long. Works fine on my MacBook,
but when I push it to a Linux box,it acts differently and
ends up pewking.
[...]
the data looks to be the same, but the unpacking seems to
treat it differently.
Probably little-endian vs. big-endian issue:
>s
'\x1e\xc6\xf3\x b4'
>struct.unpack( '<I', s)
(3035874846L,)
>struct.unpack( '>I', s)
(516354996L,)
See help(struct) for further information.
This seems to imply that the Mac, although running now on Intel
processors, is still big-endian.
HTH
Martin
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