how to convert '\xf0' to 0xf0 ?

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:28 AM, <chengang.beijing at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> ord('\xf0') works and it only works for char. Do you know any way to
> convet
> '\xf0\xf0' and '\xf0\xf0\xff\xfe' to integer?
>

Is that supposed to be a single integer or 4 integers?
Either way, you'd use a for loop to iterate over each character.


4 integers :

>>> a = '\xf0\xf0\xff\xfe'
>>> b = [ord(ch) for ch in a]
>>> b
[240, 240, 255, 254]

1 really large integer:

>>> a = '\xf0\xf0\xff\xfe'
>>> i = 0
>>> for ch in a :
...    i = i << 8
...    i += ord(ch)
...
>>> i
4042326014L




>
>
> Br, Chen Gang
>
> On Dec 12, 12:40 pm, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> > chengang.beij... at gmail.com wrote:
> > > '\xf0' is the value read from a binary file, I need to change this
> > > kinds strings to int for further processing...
> > > if it is in C, then '\xf0' is an integer and it can be handled
> > > directly, but in python, it is a string.
> >
> > > and both int('10',16) and int('0x10',16) returns 16.
> >
> > > Br, Chen Gang
> >
> > > On Dec 12, 12:06 pm, Tommy Nordgren <tommy.nordg... at comhem.se> wrote:
> > >> On Dec 12, 2008, at 4:48 AM, chengang.beij... at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > >>> int('\xf0',16) doesn't work, any way to do that?
> > >>> --
> > >>>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
> > >>         Should be int('10',16)
> > >> or int('0x10',16)
> >
> > It seems that you want the integer value of a character you read in from
> > a file. Is this correct? Note that '\xf0' is the interpreter's way of
> > representing a one-character string whose only character has the
> > hexadecimal value f0, because the actual character is not printable: the
> > backslash has a special meaning in character string literals.
> >
> > Any one-character string, however, can be converted to the equivalent
> > integer value using the ord() function. You can convert the other way
> > using the chr() function:
> >
> >
> >
> > >>> ord('A')
> > 65
> > >>> chr(65)
> > 'A'
> > >>> ord('\xf0')
> > 240
> > >>> chr(240)
> > '\xf0'
> > >>> hex(240)
> > '0xf0'
> >
> > So just apply the ord() function to the character and you'll get its
> > integer value!
> >
> > regards
> >  Steve
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