Convert binary information to regular data type without outside modules in python.
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Hello World. I'm tasked with reading a poorly formatted binary file and taking in the variables. Although I need to do it in C++ (ROOT, specifically), I've decided to do it in python because python makes sense to me, but my plan is to get it working in python and then tackle re-writing in in C++, so using easy to use python modules won't get me too far later down the road.
Basically, I do this:
In [5]: some_value
Out[5]: '\x00I'
In [6]: ''.join([str(ord(i)) for i in some_value])
Out[6]: '073'
In [7]: int(''.join([str(ord(i)) for i in some_value]))
Out[7]: 73
And I know there has to be a better way. What do you think?
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