signed to unsigned

Fri Feb 17 14:14:46 EST 2012

Brad Tilley wrote:
> In C or C++, I can do this for integer conversion:
>> unsigned int j = -327681234; // Notice this is signed.
>> j will equal 3967286062. I thought with Python that I could use struct
> to pack the signed int as an unsigned int, but that fails:
>>>>> x = struct.pack("<I", -327681234)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> struct.error: integer out of range for 'I' format code
>> Is there an easy way in Python to do the same conversion that C or C++
> code does? Thanks for any advice.

>>> 0xffffffff & -327681234
3967286062