String --> int

[Romain Guy]

thanks

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"Samuele Pedroni" <pedroni at inf.ethz.ch> a écrit dans le message news:
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> Romain Guy wrote:
>
> >     Assuming fsock is a File objet, when I do:
> > var = fsock.read(4)
> > I get a String. I'd like to convert it into an integer. I haven't found
any
> > method for this so I built this one:
> >
> > def _buildInteger(bytes):
> >   if len(bytes) != 4:
> >     return -1
> >   else:
> >     return ord(bytes[0]) | ord(bytes[1]) << 8 | ord(bytes[2]) << 16 |
> > ord(bytes[3]) << 24
> >
> > It works perfectly but I'd like to use one internal to Python if
possible...
> >
> > --
> > Romain "Java Swinguer !" Guy
> > romain.guy at jext.org
> > www.jext.org
> >
> > "Now, don't you worry. The saucers are up there. The graveyard is out
there.
> > But I'll be locked up safely in there."
> > - Paula Trent, Plan 9 From Outer Space
>
> struct.unpack should do what you are looking for.
>
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-struct.html
>
> regards.
>