PacketField¶
- class ccsdspy.PacketField(name, data_type, bit_length, bit_offset=None, byte_order='big')[source]¶
Bases:
object
A field contained in a packet.
- Parameters:
- namestr
String identifier for the field. The name specified how you may call upon this data later.
- data_type{‘uint’, ‘int’, ‘float’, ‘str’, ‘fill’}
Data type of the field.
- bit_lengthint
Number of bits contained in the field.
- bit_offsetint, optional
Bit offset into packet, including the primary header which is 48 bits long. If this is not specified, than the bit offset will the be calculated automatically from its position inside the packet definition.
- byte_order{‘big’, ‘little’}, optional
Byte order of the field. Defaults to big endian.
- Raises:
- TypeError
If one of the arguments is not of the correct type.
- ValueError
data_type or byte_order is invalid