Unpacking binary data with struct.unpack

[Grant Edwards]

In article <ok53n8.lu1.ln at odin.hmf.de>, Holger Fuessler wrote:

>> As far as values embedded within the payload (which neither TCP nor IP
>> understand nor care about), then as you say any order can be used -
>> it's up to the applications creating and processing the data.
> 
>Is there an internet standard for this? 

For what?

>The RFC868 only says it's a 4-byte integer and nothing more. Decoding the 4
>bytes with network decoding (using !i in the unpack string) gives me an
>integer, but it's not - as far as I understand the RFC - in the right scale.

I thought we were talking about the payload -- the payload is a stream of
8-bit bytes (octets).  There is no organization or interpretation implied
for the payload data.

>Has anybody a routine that gives a binary view of a python integer (like
>01110101). Maybe I could figure out the encoding that way.

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