text strings to binary...

[oriana.falco at thalesesec.com]

Hi,

I've been working with Python for a bit now but I just came accross a
problem and I'm not sure how to approach it. I'd like to convert a text
string into binary data format. I though I'd use the struct module and
the pack function but I can't get it to work. I'm using Python 2.3.3 in
Windows XP.

Thanks in advance for the help, 
Oriana