Re: Binary data exchange

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From	Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date	2014-05-29 17:20 -0600
Subject	Re: Binary data exchange
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On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:09 PM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 2014-05-29 23:08, RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com wrote:
>> the received data for the messages 9 thru 13 are not as expected.
>>
>> I wonder if anyone can see what I am doing wrong?
>>
>> Appreciate any hints. thanks, srini
>>
> I don't understand why you're using the .strip method. That's for
> stripping whitespace from text, but you're not sending and receiving
> text, you're sending and receiving binary data.

And indeed, ASCII characters 9-13 are all whitespace.  The receiver
appears to be stripping off the first byte of the (presumably
little-endian) data and thus shifting the whole struct by a byte for
those entries.

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Binary data exchange "RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com" <RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com> - 2014-05-29 15:08 -0700
  Re: Binary data exchange "RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com" <RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com> - 2014-05-29 15:13 -0700
  Re: Binary data exchange MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-05-30 00:09 +0100
    Re: Binary data exchange "RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com" <RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com> - 2014-05-29 16:25 -0700
      Re: Binary data exchange Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-30 00:56 +0100
  Re: Binary data exchange Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-05-29 17:20 -0600

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