Question

I need to transmit a value that is larger than 65535 via two different hex strings so that when the strings are received, they can be concatenated to form the integer again. For example if the value was 70000 then the two strings would be 0x0001 and 0x1170.

I thought it would be as simple as converting the integer to hex then shifting it right by 4 to get the top string and removing all but the last 4 characters for the bottom.

I think I might be struggling with some syntax (fairly new to Python) and probably some of the logic too. Can anyone think of an easy way to do this?

Thanks

Answer 1

Use divmod builtin function:

>>> [hex(x) for x in divmod(70000, 65536)]
['0x1', '0x1170']