help on packet format for tcp/ip programming

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

rattan at cps.cmich.edu wrote:

> I want a specific packet format for packet exchange between a
> client server across the network. For example frame format
> as a python class could be:
> class Frame:
>         def __init__(self, buffer=None, count=0, offset=0):
>                 self.buffer = buffer
>                 self.count = count
>                 self.offset = offset
> the question is how to convert it to a byte stream so that format
> of count and offset also becomes a sequence of bytes.

Try struct.

Regards,


Björn

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