Re: [Bitpim-devel] Strings in packet description

[Roger B. <ro...@ro...>]

> When I try to read a packet with names less than 16 characters, it works
> (the phone pads fields with nulls).  But on the following packet, with a
> 16 character name, I get an error.  

You can set raiseonunterminatedread to False.

> Are there some attributes to STRING
> that I can add that will help?  The length of the string is available in
> the packet, but is not located adjacent to the string itself.

I guess the problem here is that the field has a length in bytes
(including padding) as well as a length in characters.  It even 
looks like the length in characters can be in a later field
which makes things even nastier.

If the raiseonunterminatedread doesn't work for you, you could derive
a new string class (or add an argument to the existing one) that
lets you truncate the characters to a certain size.  It won't be
much use when the length field is after the string field though.

Roger