Retrieving int from hex in a file.

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:14:51 -0300, Filipe Teixeira <filipe.tg at gmail.com> escribió:

> a in now a string full of hex representations in the form:
>
> a[6]='\x14'
> a[7]='\x20'
>
> I would like to convert these hex representations to int, but this
> (the most obvious way) doesn't seem to be working
>
>>>> q=a[6]
>>>> q
> '\x14'
>>>> int(q,16)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ValueError: invalid literal for int():
>>>>

Use ord(q)

py> help(ord)
Help on built-in function ord in module __builtin__:

ord(...)
     ord(c) -> integer

     Return the integer ordinal of a one-character string.

py>

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Gabriel Genellina