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I'm attempting to program something in Python having never used it before, nor done any tutorials. Google gets you quite far but I've run into a problem and it's confusing me.

Right, so I have some bytes, in an array. Or possibly a string.

a=data[12]
print a

I get a character printed (Ý) which is obviously the ASCII character of the number I want.

I have tried using int() to convert it - and have used that elsewhere with success, but in this case I get an error - ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '\xed'

I think the problem is in understanding the type of data I've got. In C it would simply be an array of bytes, and extracting one like that gets you an integer, not a character.



Any clues?

No, it isn't. Python's handling of numeric and string types is automatic. However you're populating data[], it doesn't contain what you think it contains.

type(a)

What does it say?


edit: Also, data[] is probably not an 'array', unless you explicilty made an array frmo some library like 'numpy'.
edit: and if it's a string, then data[4] would also be a string. (there's no such thing as a character).
So as Gaywood asks: How are you filling the data variable? More code plox.

It's stuff from the serial port - ser.read()
You're right, if I send ascii, I can print ascii.
It says <type 'str'>. OK.

In this case, I'm sending in numbers, like 0xED. I just need to get them out of the string, somehow.

Yeah, this is where I've got confused because in C a string and an array are interchangeable, so I wouldn't even be thinking about it.

To give you an idea of how it's supposed to work



You're not reading your serial port correctly.

I am too! If I send 0x50 in the port, I get 'P'. Correct. That is also worth 80 in decimal, and I want that

VAL() in basic, possibly.. Back to google.

The answer is ORD() !

Thanks guys, you helped me understand the data type.

Well, not being able to see the subtitle, this thread was a disappointment.

ps:

>>> data = "\x80"
>>> print data
Ç
>>> data
'\x80'
>>> repr(data)
"'\\x80'"

>>> data = "\x50\x36\x49"
>>> print data
P6I
>>> data
'P6I'
>>> repr(data)
"'P6I'"

>>> data + "\x80"
'P6I\x80'
>>> data = data + "\x80"
>>> print data
P6IÇ
>>> data
'P6I\x80'

>>> ord("\x60")
96
>>> int("\x60")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '`'

I think Beex just crashed.

Into your mum's face!

A friend has just sent me this asking if there is anyone I might know that might help:

An old work colleague of mine posted this on Facebook, any ideas?
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S.O.S my facebook pepes I need some HELP.
Any Abuntu or Python programmer could assist..
My son and I are build an autonomous rc car using donkeycar.
We keep PEMISSION DENIED after running the following command line:
python ~/mycar/manage.py train --tub ~/mycar/data/mytub --model ~/mycar/models/mypilot.h5

it error when writing back to the .h5 file

Please help as this is for his degree

Thank you all
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Sounds like either the file is set to read-only or the user account doesn’t have the correct privileges to write to the file, rather than a programming error as such (although I don’t do Python so I can’t tell if there’s any errors there).

Thank you. I passed that on x