Greetings,
Why is it possible to pack unsigned short and int values in
little-endian byte order (using the ‘v’ and ‘V’ formats) and not signed
values ?
[ 42].pack(“v”).unpack(“v”)[0] # => 42
[-42].pack(“v”).unpack(“v”)[0] # => 65494
So I have to use stuff like
[-42].pack(“v”).unpack(“v”)[0] - 65536 # => -42
Not a showstopper, but not so nice either… 
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Luc Heinrich - lucsky@mac.com