mac address

[shama.bell]

Hello,
I am a newbie and i have problems filling an array with the mac address
read from the command line.

The mac address is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF

options, args = parser.parse_args()
# options.d contains the address
destAddress = options.d

data = array('L', '\0' * 24)
The array should contain the data as follows:
data[0] = 0xFF
data[1] = 0xFF
.........
data[5] = 0xFF
Any help is appreciated
-SB

[John Machin]

sh********@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,
I am a newbie and i have problems filling an array with the mac address
read from the command line.

The mac address is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF

options, args = parser.parse_args()
# options.d contains the address
destAddress = options.d

data = array('L', '\0' * 24)
The array should contain the data as follows:
data[0] = 0xFF
data[1] = 0xFF
........
data[5] = 0xFF
Any help is appreciated
-SB

You will be better off in the long run if you try to solve these minor
questions yourself.

Break the problem down:

First step: *split* the destAddress into 6 strings
Second step: convert the strings to *long* integer, remembering to use
base 16 arithmetic
Third step: use the resulting 6-element list when creating "data".

Why do you think you need array.array('L', ....)? What are you going to
do with "data" after filling it with the address?