question about binary and serial info

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-08-19, John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net> wrote:

> The OP is reading raw output from a serial port. He's already said he's 
> getting "funny ASCII characters". One gets the impression he thinks he 
> needs to do bit-twiddling on *each* byte. Looks like he needs ord(), or 
> (better) struct.unpack()

Yes, I finally reached that conclusion.  The OP kept insisting
he was reading hex strings -- an impression given him by the
device's vendor, apparently.

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