Convert bytes array to int python wrong result

Question

I know this should be easy, but I just can't get the syntax right for python.

My int is not converted correctly. This is the output of my 2 print statements. My output should be 9718 instead of 959918392.

bytearray(b'9718')
959918392

This is my conversion. I don't understand what am I doing wrong.

print(size)
print(int.from_bytes(size, byteorder='big'))

yea, i made a mistake and assumed my bytearray was bytes[], but it acctly contained ascii — Peter
– Peter, Commented Jan 25, 2021 at 5:21

Lionel Foxcroft · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-25 04:17:35Z

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What you tried assumes the number is directly encoded as bytes. You actually want to parse it from ascii, which you can do like this:

int(b'9718'.decode('ascii'))

answered Jan 25, 2021 at 4:17

Lionel Foxcroft

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