issue with struct.unpack

[MRAB]

On 28/08/2012 23:35, 9bizy wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:16:54 UTC+1, MRAB  wrote:
>> On 25/08/2012 19:34, 9bizy wrote:
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>> > I am trying to unpack values from sensor data I am retrieving through
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>> > a serial cable, but I get errors while using struct.unpack, how can I
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>> > use struct.unpack to unload the data in a readable format?
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>> > I checked the python documentation for struct and I can seen to find
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>> > any argument for this.
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>> > I have data = struct.unpack('char',data) but I still get errors
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>> The format strings are described here for Python 3:
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>>      http://docs.python.org/3.2/library/struct.html
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>> and here for Python 2:
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>>      http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/struct.html
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> I used this documents but they do not explain or provide an example on how to use struct.unpack for sensor data from an external source or even data from a excel sheet.
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If you want to read from an Excel file you should be using the 'xlrd'
module. You can find it here: http://www.python-excel.org/