Converting a byte_array to signed int

[Iyassou]

Hello,

I'm reading a 16-bit value from two consecutive registers on a sensor and I've put them into one variable by typing

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data = bytearray(i2c.mem_read(2, addr, mem_addr))

and I want to turn this into a signed integer.
The order in which I'm reading the values defines data's endianness as little. So far in my previous code I've been using

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int.from_bytes(bytearray, 'little')

to convert a bytearray of little endianness into an integer.
The Python documentation for int.from_bytes (available here https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdty ... from_bytes) says that you can specify the signed or unsigned nature of the bytearray (or byte(s)) to be converted. So I typed

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int.from_bytes(data, 'little', True)

but I got this error

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: function expected at most 3 arguments, got 4

Does anyone know a workaround or another way to convert a bytearray into a signed integer?

[deshipu]

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import ustruct

data = ustruct.unpack("<h", i2c.mem_read(2, addr, mem_addr))[0]

[Iyassou]

Sorry for the late reply, Internet was down. Thanks that did the job perfectly!