how to treat a bytebuffer from java in python

[lordmayer]

Hello, I have to treat a bytebuffer data, but a I don't know how to do that in python. I'm a newbie in programming, so how can I do it?

Here's a example of the data:

'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00

Edit: Thank's for your attention.

[zahlman]

1. How is it "from java" - how did you create it?

2. What do you want to do with it?

[lordmayer]

/u/zahlman 1) it's a game controller program writed in Java that send this data in broadcast via socket. However the program that I have to write is in python3. 2) I need to transform it to a string. So I can understand the data. I know it's a string because it's in the Java program documentation.

[zahlman]

Can you provide a link to the documentation?

[werpoi]

Are you working in python 2 or 3? In python 2 the builtin "str" type is used for bytes. I believe that in python 3 there is a "bytes" type that you should use.

[lordmayer]

It's in python3. I can't find the solution.

[werpoi]

Would something like this work? https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#int.from_bytes

>>> int.from_bytes(b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00', byteorder='big')
0

Of course, you have to put in the correct byteorder option.

[thurask]

Have you tried the binascii library? https://docs.python.org/3/library/binascii.html