Packing and unpacking IP addresses into 32-bit integers
Ben Gertzfield
che at debian.org
Mon Aug 9 21:52:32 EDT 1999
>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Fletcher <mcfletch at vrtelecom.com> writes:
Mike> Wouldn't it be something like: '>bbbb' or '!bbbb'
Mike> instead (for portability to non-big-endian machines (I'm
Mike> assuming the packed representation is supposed to have
Mike> network byte order))?
Unfortunately Python isn't smart enough to assume that:
struct.pack('!bbbb', a, b, c, d)
means
struct.pack('!bbbb', d, c, b, a)
but it's easy enough to just change the order of the arguments, which
is what I did, since it's well-defined which order the arguments
will come in (they'll always come in a b c d and go out d c b a).
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