Need help with struct module

[Gordon Scott]

hmmm, I'll try that.

I'm not exactlly transferring the file over a socket.  Just writing a binary
file and manually copying it up to the device.
Did the same thing in Java, dumped a binary file on my desktop and copied it
over to the device without any problem.

"Richard Brodie" <R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> "Gordon Scott" <gscott2112 at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > why in this example are the packing of 9 and 10 not showing '\x00\x09'
and
> > '\x00\x0a' respectively?
>
> It's the canonical representation of that string, after round tripping the
> escaping/unescaping. No different to:
> >>> ('\x41')
> 'A'
>
> > On the target device when I read the file into a memory buffer and
examine
> > the contents, the value of 10 ('\x00\n') that I am expecting is
litterally 00 0D
> > and NOT 00 0A.
>
> I guess at some point you've read/written/transferred the file without the
binary flag.
> Try dumping the file on each platform to see where it got converted. Then
go back
> and add a few '\x62's.
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>