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

[Nick Coghlan]

Ilya Sandler wrote:
>     item=unpack( "IIII", rec, offset)

How about making offset a standard integer, and change the signature to return a 
tuple when it is used:

   item = unpack(format, rec) # Full unpacking
   offset = 0
   item, offset = unpack(format, rec, offset) # Partial unpacking

The second item in the returned tuple being the offset of the first byte after 
the end of the unpacked item.

Cheers,
Nick.

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