Re: [Jython-users] how to handle bytes in jython

[Walter C. <cha...@gm...>]

Thanks for responding Philip -

import struct
import array

salt= [0xA5,  0x9E, 0xD8, 0x36,0x26, 0x99, 0xEE, 0xB3]
saltba = array.array('b')
saltba = saltba.append((struct.pack('i',val) for val in salt))


I tried playing around with struct but it returns the str not the
actual byte and sot I'm getting the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Eclipse32\workspace1\jython1\src\test\testingsalt.py", line
12, in <module>
    saltba = saltba.append((struct.pack('i',val) for val in salt))
TypeError: Type not compatible with array type

Any more pointers?

Thanks!
Walter

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Philip Jenvey <pj...@un...> wrote:
>
> On Jun 2, 2012, at 5:50 AM, Walter Chang wrote:
>
>> Hi All -
>>
>> I'm migrating some code from java to jython and am having some
>> problems understanding how to translate the following:
>>
>> byte[] salt = { (byte) 0xA5, (byte) 0x9E, (byte) 0xD8, (byte) 0x36,
>>   (byte) 0x26, (byte) 0x99, (byte) 0xEE, (byte) 0xB3 };
>>
>> Below is what the code is based on:
>
> You can get an array of Java bytes underneath via:
>
> from array import array
> salt = array('b', [0xA5, 0x9E, ...])
>
> However the array type is stricter about the values passed to it than the line of Java you pasted (as you'd get this error):
>
> OverflowError: value too large for byte
>
> That line of Java is actually explicitly converting your ints (the hex literals) to bytes via the cast. If you want to programmatically support passing values like this to the array type you would need to do the same conversion manually beforehand
>
> salt = array('b', (int2byte(i) for i in [0xA5, 0x9E, ...]))  # the proper impl of int2byte escapes me now..
>
> Or just pick salt values that already fit in the first place =]
>
> --
> Philip Jenvey
>



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