title: Python Socket Receiving Doubles
body: <p>I need a python program to use a TCP connection(to another program) to retrieve sets of 9 bytes.</p>
  
  <p>The first of the nine bytes represents a char, and the rest represent a double.</p>
  
  <p>How can I extract this information from a python socket?  Will I have to do the maths manually to convert the stream data or is there a better way?</p>