Problems with struct.pack()

[Carsten Haese]

On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 19:00 -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have opened a unicode file for writing:
> 
> import codecs
> file = codecs.open( "somefile.dat", "wb", "utf-16" )
> 
> and I attempt to do this:
> 
> file.write( struct.pack ( "I", 5000 ) )
> 
> However, this won't work because the encoding of the string returned
> by "pack" isn't unicode. I'm a bit confused right now as to how I can
> get this to work. I can't allow the unicode-ness of the file interfere
> with the actual order of the bytes that pack() is returning (In other
> words, don't pack NULL characters in there) 

Please start at the beginning. What are you actually trying to
accomplish and why do you think you need to write arbitrary binary data
into a file that is supposed to be a UTF-16 encoded Unicode text file?

-- 
Carsten Haese
http://informixdb.sourceforge.net