I seem to be having a brain fart today as my mind is just blank. I'm parsing datagrams to extract some data. I have an x,y coordinate pair in 8 bytes. My ICD tells me: bytes 1-4 are the X position ...

When you have byte sequences to work with it is tempting to simply write a for loop that processes each byte in turn. However, notice that there is no easy way to implement a shift operation on a ...

In previous chapters we have focused on sophisticated high-level data abstractions – but while it is true to say that in Python everything is an object it is universally true that in programming ...