Two newbie questions

[Steven D. Majewski]

On 8 Nov 2000, Fred Clare wrote:

>   2.)  What is an efficient way of packing a large (i.e. > 1MB)
>        list of integers (that are in the range 0 to 255)
>        into a Python string as a sequence of contiguous bytes?
> 
>        Something like the following seems very inefficient:
> 
> 
>        import struct
> 

Use the array module.  

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