Hello Everybody, I've read a pipe and store it in a object. My next step was the separation from 4 bytes with obj = string.join(list(dataObject)[:4] ==> '\x16 \x00 \x00 \x00' and the converting by value = struct.unpack('I', obj) generated the error "unpack str size does not match format" Unfortunately is len(obj) 7, but integer lengt 4. Why 7 ? Any ideas ? gf