Longint?!

[Dominic]

Ivo wrote:
> 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.
maybe the module struct will help you....