# This is a function to process the list of cell voltage data
def process_list(v):

    # Creating one long string alleviates the problem of having 1/2 a voltage on each message
    # Discard first 3 bytes of the first message since it has only 2 voltages
    v_string = "".join(v[0:29])[3*8:]

    # Create an empty list to store the voltage of each cell
    voltages = [0.0] * 96
    for i in range(0, 96):
        # Each cell has a 16 bit value. Extract the next 16 bits and convert it into a float
        voltages[i] = float(int(v_string[(i*16):(i*16+16)], 2))
        # Divide by 1000 to get the final value
        voltages[i] = voltages[i]/1000.
        # Print the voltage of the cell to the console
        #print("Cell " + str(i+1) + " = %.3f" % voltages[i])
    return voltages