[Python-Dev] adding Construct to the standard library? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Apr 19 07:02:32 CEST 2006


Travis Oliphant wrote:

For what it's worth, NumPy also defines a data-type object which it uses to describe the fundamental data-type of an array. In the context of this thread it is also yet another way to describe a binary-packed structure in Python.

Maybe there should be a separate module providing a data-packing facility that ctypes, NumPy, etc. can all use (perhaps with their own domain-specific extensions to it).

It does seem rather silly to have about 3 or 4 different incompatible ways to do almost exactly the same thing (struct, ctypes, NumPy and now Construct).

-- Greg



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