backslash in reading bytes

[Dravidan]

I am trying to read some byte data as a string then using a library to
convert them a code:

>>>reader = csv.DictReader(open('table.txt'))
def eleFind(value):
for row in reader:
if row['byteCode'] == value:
print row['Element']
return
else:
print "No Match Found:"
eleFind('\x00\x00')

My table contains:

\x00\x00,0000
\x01\x00,0000
.......

The program errors out. How can I fix/overide this backslash issue.

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:24:49 -0700, Dravidan wrote:

I am trying to read some byte data as a string then using a library to
convert them a code:

>>>>reader = csv.DictReader(open('table.txt'))
def eleFind(value):
for row in reader:
if row['byteCode'] == value:
print row['Element']
return
else:
print "No Match Found:"
eleFind('\x00\x00')

My table contains:

\x00\x00,0000
\x01\x00,0000
......

The program errors out. How can I fix/overide this backslash issue.

What does `errors out` mean?

It won't find two zero bytes. What you give at the `eleFind()` call are
just *two* characters with a byte value of zero:

In [116]: len('\x00\x00')
Out[116]: 2

In [117]: print '\x00\x00'
In [118]: len('\\x00\\x00')
Out[118]: 8

In [119]: print '\\x00\\x00'
\x00\x00

The backslash has a special meaning in string literals. If you don't want
this meaning, you have to escape it with another backslash.

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch