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On 01/15/2016 05:08 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
> [sorry, toddler on my lap clicked <send> before I could type]
>
>> import struct
>> with open('toto', 'wb') as f: f.write(struct.pack('<4B', *[1,2,3,4]))
>
> This one does what you want.  The problem resides in your check:
>
>> I always end up with the following bytes on file:
>> !hexdump toto
>> 0000000 0201 0403
>
> Hexdump is grouping them.  Try the canonical format:
>
>   !hexdump -C toto
>   00000000  01 02 03 04              |....|
>   00000004
>
>
> -tkc

Great ! thank you, (and Bartc).

jm