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Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 20:41:59 -0400
From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
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On 05/27/2013 08:31 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 27 May 2013 11:30:18 -0400, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>
>> On 5/27/2013 10:45 AM, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
>>>  From an int one can use to_bytes to get its individual bytes, but how
>>> can one reconstruct the int from the sequence of bytes?
>>>
>>>
>> The next thing in the docs after int.to_bytes is int.from_bytes:
>
> And I can't believe I missed that too :-(
>
>
And that approach probably works for negative ints too.


-- 
DaveA