struct.pack Format String Question

[Joshua Forgione]

Hello. I am reverse engineering some Python Code. I am using the book
"The Quick Python Book" as an aide.

The following line exists in the code:

msg = struct.pack('BBBB',word0, word1, word2, word3, word4)

In this struct.pack command, the format string is 'BBBB.' In the book,
it gives the following examples for characters that are meaningful to
struct:

'h' - short integer
'd' - double-precision floating point
's' - string

In this case, 'B' is used. What does 'B' represent? What other
characters can be used? Does a list of this exist somewhere?

Thank you for your help.

Josh

[Erik Max Francis]

Joshua Forgione wrote:

In this case, 'B' is used. What does 'B' represent? What other
characters can be used? Does a list of this exist somewhere?

http://www.python.org/doc/current/li...le-struct.html

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[Larry Bates]

"B" is unsigned character (from Python Library Reference).

I'm hoping you copied the line down wrong, because it won't
work (there is probably another B).

See output below:

import struct
word0=1
word1=2
word2=3
word3=4
word4=5
msg = struct.pack('BBBB',word0, word1, word2, word3, word4)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
error: too many arguments for pack format

Larry Bates
Syscon, Inc.

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"Joshua Forgione" <jf******@vt.edu> wrote in message
news:40***************@vt.edu...

Hello. I am reverse engineering some Python Code. I am using the book
"The Quick Python Book" as an aide.

The following line exists in the code:

msg = struct.pack('BBBB',word0, word1, word2, word3, word4)

In this struct.pack command, the format string is 'BBBB.' In the book,
it gives the following examples for characters that are meaningful to
struct:

'h' - short integer
'd' - double-precision floating point
's' - string

In this case, 'B' is used. What does 'B' represent? What other
characters can be used? Does a list of this exist somewhere?

Thank you for your help.

Josh