Reading socket binary data?

[Peter Hansen]

Michael Simpson wrote:
> 
> In C:
> struct FOO
> {
> short a;
> char b;
> long c;
> }
> 
> In Python, I get
> 
> data = socket.recv(1024)
> 
> How to I translate data to a struct FOO type or a series of objects that
> represent those fields?

Read the docs on the "struct" standard module...

-Peter