Longint?!

[Larry Bates]

You must read it as binary and use struct.unpack() to convert
to long integer.

HTH,
Larry Bates
Syscon, Inc.

"Ivo" <Spam at ivonet.nl> wrote in message
news:41011836$0$769$3a628fcd at reader20.nntp.hccnet.nl...
> Pythoneers,
> I am trying to reed a long integer (4 byte value like in pascal) in python
> but i don't seem to succeed.
>
> It's from a binary file where from a certain offset in the file 4 bytes
> (longint) tell how long a header is.
>
> because I  don't have to assign a type to a variable I don't know how to
> ensure i get the longint type read from the file.
>
> Help very much appreciatend.
>
> -- 
> Cheerz,
> Ivo.
> http://IvoNet.nl
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