struct.unpack

[Peter Otten]

g.franzkowiak wrote:

> The dataObject was read from a named pipe as an byte stream
> 
> state, dataObject = win32file.ReadFile(handle, nbytes, None)
> print repr(dataObject)
>  ==> '\x01\x02\x03\x04\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x0.....
> 
> With Frederiks help operates this fine

I do not doubt that. My point was that instead of the suggested

# Fredrik
obj = "".join(list(dataObject[:4]))

the simpler

# me
obj = dataObject[:4]

might work as well. I cannot test it here, but judging from 

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.3/pywin32/win32file__ReadFile_meth.html

the resulting dataObject is a buffer and buffer slices seem to be just
strings.

> print repr(dataObject)
>  ==> '\x01\x02\x03\x04\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x0.....

Hmm, that looks as if dataObject were a string -- please post the result of

print type(dataObject)

just to help me restore my peace of mind :-)

Peter