struct.pack format

[DamienCassou]

Hi,

in the code of this project, one can read:

message_length = struct.unpack("@I", raw_length)[0]

In the MDN's documentation, one can read:

message_length = struct.unpack('=I', raw_length)[0]

Would you mind telling me why you chose to use "@I" for the format instead of "=I"?

The related Python documentation is at: https://docs.python.org/2/library/struct.html

[Rayquaza01]

Hello,
The ping_pong.py file from MDN's webextension examples repo uses "@I" instead of "=I", which is where I got that from. I can't remember specifically why I chose to use "@I", but both seem to work the same.

Here's the edit on MDN where @ is changed to =

[...]Either works as long native int is 32-bits (which I think is everywhere Firefox runs), but using @I is misleading.

And the Google Chrome sample host just uses I, no @ or =, which is the same as @I according to the Python docs.

So, I don't think it really matters unless there's a system that has a native size for ints that's different from the standard size.

[DamienCassou]

Rayquaza01 <notifications@github.com> writes:

The [ping_pong.py](https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/blob/master/native-messaging/app/ping_pong.py) file from MDN's webextension examples repo uses ***@***.***"` instead of `"=I"`, which is where I got that from. I can't remember specifically why I chose to use ***@***.***"`, but both seem to work the same. […]

Thank you very much for your detailed answer.

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