pythonarraysshort

Converting bytearray to short int in python

I have a long bytearray 

barray=b'\x00\xfe\x4b\x00...

What would be the best way to convert it to a list of 2-byte integers?

Solution

  • Using the struct module:

    import struct

count = len(barray)/2
integers = struct.unpack('H'*count, barray)

    Depending on the endianness you may want to prepend a < or > for the unpacking format. And depending on signed/unsigned, it's h, or H.