[Python-Dev] new buffer in python2.7 (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Oct 29 12:15:04 CEST 2010


Actually I would like code like s = socket() ... header = struct.unpack("i", s)

In other words, struct should interact with files/streams directly, instead of requiring me to first read a chunk who's size I manually have to determine etc.

That is easy to achieve using the existing API:

def read_and_unpack(stream, format): data = stream.read(struct.calcsize(format)) return struct.unpack(format, data)

Otherwise, I'm +1 on your suggestion, avoiding copying is a good thing.

I believe my function also doesn't involve any unnecessary copies.

Regards, Martin



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