How do I read multipli bytes from file?

[Siggy Brentrup]

"Jens Arnfelt" <jens.arnfelt at get2net.dk> writes:

> Hi There !
> 
> I have been working on an python program that reads Call Data Records from a
> file!
> 
> Ex. the following values in hex (a telephone number encoded in BCD(Binary
> Coded Dicimal) :
> 
> 45 26 10 05 01 1f ff ff ff ff
> 
> The length of the fiels is 10 bytes.
> I need to convert this into somthing readable in a single string. The result
> should be!
> 
> '45261005011fffffff'
> 
> I've tryed with the string.unpack() but its return a list of bytes, not a
> string.
> 
> Any help would apriciated

It's not very efficient but it works for getting at the nibbles:

 string.join(map(lambda b:'%02x' % (b&0xff), LIST_OF_INTS)

Further tweaking may be required depending on the exact representation 
of phone numbers in your input data.

HIH
  Siggy

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