[Tutor] help with translating a c function to a python function

[shawn bright]

Thanks Alan,
so do you think my translation is close?
i do not know a lick of c. Nope, not one line.

thanks
shawn

On 7/5/07, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> "shawn bright" <nephish at gmail.com> wrote
> while (usDataLen––)
>         {
>         uIndex = uchCRCHi ^ *puchMsgg++ ;
>         uchCRCHi = uchCRCLo ^ auchCRCHi[uIndex} ;
>         uchCRCLo = auchCRCLo[uIndex] ;
>         }
>     return (uchCRCHi << 8 | uchCRCLo) ;
> }
>
> > this part ' auchCRCHi[uIndex};
> > it looks like a typo, because there is a closing } that does not
> > match
> > the opening [.
>
> Its probably a typo but there is one (pretty remote, and horrible)
> possible way for it to be valid which is if uIndex is a macro that
> expands to complete the square bracket expression and introduce
> an expression which needs a brace to finish it. But thats
> just perverse, so I think its a mistake! (Especially since I just
> noticed uIndex is used elsewhere without any closing brace)
>
> Alan G.
>
>
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