Network byte ordering question ...

[David Bolen]

David Bolen <db3l at fitlinxx.com> writes:

> As you indicated you had looked at, you could probably use the struct
> module, and that may be the simplest approach.  One caution is that
> the module doesn't really guarantee much about the alignment of
> individual elements in a structure, so I would suggest slicing off the
> fields you need to decode and then unpacking them individually.

Following up on my own post, but after seeing the other response by
Mike Fletcher I went back and double checked the module and I was
mistaken - it does in fact offer standardized alignment, so the above
is incorrect if you explicitly set the byte order / alignment (such as
with the "!"  character).  So unpacking in full should be fine as long
as you specify the byte ordering.

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