[Python-Dev] Re: an idea for improving struct.unpack api

[Martin Bless]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:27:16 -0800 (PST), Ilya Sandler
<ilya at bluefir.net> wrote:

>The current struct.unpack api works well for unpacking C-structures where
>everything is usually unpacked at once, but it
>becomes  inconvenient when unpacking binary files where things
>often have to be unpacked field by field.

It may be helpful to remember Sam Rushings NPSTRUCT extension which
accompanied the Calldll module of that time (2001). Still available
from

http://www.nightmare.com/~rushing/dynwin/

mb - Martin