how to convert from network to host byte order

[Evan]

On Mar 5, 9:50 pm, Philipp Hagemeister <phi... at phihag.de> wrote:
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> Evan wrote:
> >>> inp='\x04\x00'
> >>> out = socket.ntohs(struct.unpack('H',inp[:2])[0]))
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > TypeError: argument 1 must be string or read-only buffer, not int
>
> Your approach is nearly right. First of all, you have to tell
> struct.unpack it should unpack from network order ("!"):
>
> >>> struct.unpack('!H', inp)[0]
>
> 1024
>
> Then you want to repack it in host byte order. Use "=" for that.
>
> >>> out = struct.pack('=H', struct.unpack('!H', inp)[0])
> >>> out
>
> '\x00\x04'
>
> For more information, look for "Size and alignment" inhttp://docs.python.org/library/struct.html.
>
> Regards,
>
> Philipp Hagemeister
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That's good, thanks Philipp