Question

I have a char array in Python, which is read from a file e.g.

char_array = [0x00, 0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05, 0x06, 0x07, 0x08, 0x09, 0x0a, 0x0b, 0x0c, 0x0d, 0x0e, 0x0f]

how do i convert/typecast/access this to an array of integers like

int_array[0] = 0x03020100
int_array[1] = 0x07060504
int_array[2] = 0x0b0a0908
int_array[3] = 0x0f0e0d0c

similar to how one would access an array of bytes as integers in C/C++ i.e. type cast an unsigned char * to an unsigned long *.

Answer 1

something like this maybe:

>>> def toInt(arr, idx):
...     res = 0
...     for i in xrange(4):
...       res |= (arr[idx*4 + i] << 8*i)
...     return res
... 

>>> '%08x' % toInt(char_array, 0)
'03020100'

>>> '%08x' % toInt(char_array, 1)
'07060504'

maybe there’s a more elegant solution using struct?