can bus problem

[wwsheldons]

The can bus API has provided the function 'can.send(data, id, *, timeout=0, rtr=False)', and the data is an integer to send, or a buffer object. If I want send the data is less than 0x7f,which can be expressed by ASCII, it worked well. for example:
dat=[0x40,0x30,0x20,0x10,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00]
buf= ''.join([chr(i) for i in dat])
can.send(buf, id)
it would work well. but if one of the data more than 0x7f, which cannot be expressed by ASCII, for example:
dat=[0xab,0x30,0x20,0x10,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00]
buf= ''.join([chr(i) for i in dat])
can.send(buf, id)
it will say that the buf is too long. who can help me ?
thanks

[dhylands]

You can use a bytearray.

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dat=bytearray([0xab,0x30,0x20,0x10,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00])
can.send(dat, id)

You can also use the b prefix on strings: can.send(b'\xab\x30\x20\x10\x00\x00\x0x00', id);
With bytearrays its kind of like an array of integers, so you can modify it after the fact as well:

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>>> dat=bytearray([0xab,0x30,0x20,0x10,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00])
>>> dat[5] = 255
>>> dat
bytearray(b'\xab0 \x10\x00\xff\x00\x00')
>>> 

(note that 0x30 was shown as a '0' and 0x20 was shown as a space.

[wwsheldons]

You can use a bytearray.

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dat=bytearray([0xab,0x30,0x20,0x10,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00])
can.send(dat, id)

You can also use the b prefix on strings: can.send(b'\xab\x30\x20\x10\x00\x00\x0x00', id);
With bytearrays its kind of like an array of integers, so you can modify it after the fact as well:

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>>> dat=bytearray([0xab,0x30,0x20,0x10,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00])
>>> dat[5] = 255
>>> dat
bytearray(b'\xab0 \x10\x00\xff\x00\x00')
>>> 

(note that 0x30 was shown as a '0' and 0x20 was shown as a space.

thank you, it works.
And I have another question, if the data is an integer, the other 7 byes is 0x00 when send data each time? the integer is the 1st data or the 8th data? thank you

[dhylands]

And I have another question, if the data is an integer, the other 7 byes is 0x00 when send data each time? the integer is the 1st data or the 8th data? thank you

The first element of the array (element 0) will be the first byte of the packet sent. You can also allocate a bytearray like this:

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>>> dat = bytearray(8)
>>> dat
bytearray(b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00')
>>> dat[0] = 0xaa
>>> dat
bytearray(b'\xaa\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00')
>>>