Network byte ordering question ...

[ian stevens]

In article <CC59868A0A76D311B1F50090277B321C1F3394 at VRTMAIL>,
Mike Fletcher  <mfletch at tpresence.com> wrote:

>( val1, val2, val3, val4, val5 ) = unpack( ">16sBBBi", header )

Thanks!  Actually, the following works better:

    ( val1, val2, val3, val4, val5 ) = unpack( "<16sBBBI", header )

I tried this both on an Intel and a Sun machine and they both return
what I expect.  I also forgot to mention that the last value was
unsigned.

>Yay! another Waterloovian Pythonista!

Actually, ex-Waterloo ... graduated last year.


thanks again,
ian.