I want to get the first 6 bytes from payload as a single number or string.
for byte_pos in range(6):
byte_content = ord(payload[byte_pos])
Assume the payload is 1 2 3 4 5 6,
for byte_pos in range(6):
print ord(payload[byte_pos])
This will result as follows, 0x1 0x2 0x3 0x4 0x5 0x6
But what I need is a single number/string like 123456. How to combine these single numbers to make 123456?
How to convert these 6 byte_contents to a single number or string.
If you are reading bytes, it means you are reading integers from 0 to 255. So you can turn those numbers quickly to base-10 like this : int(str(byte), 2)
If you want to turn bytes into characters, you might use the chr() function : char = chr(int(str(byte), 2))
If you are working with Python 2.x here's an answer (if I understood what you want to do) :
payload = bytearray(b'\x41\x42\x43') #Hex code for ABC
final_string = ''
for byte_pos in range(3):
byte_content = chr(payload[byte_pos])
#print byte_content
final_string = final_string + byte_content
print final_string
Output will be :
A
AB
ABC
dst_mac = ''
for byte_pos in range(6):
dst_mac = dst_mac + str(hex((ord(payload[byte_pos])))[2:])
print dst_mac
This way, it worked.
Thank you