Packing data

[Paul Rubin]

bvdpoel at uniserve.com writes:
> I'm doing some midi stuff and need to pack ints into a byte string. I'm
> doing
> 
> def mkstring(var):
>  ret = ""
>  for a in var:
>   ret += chr(a)
>  return ret
> 
> Which works. But I got to thinking there might be a more efficient way
> to to this. So I started to look at array and struct.

try this:

import array
def mkstring(var):
  a = array.array('B', var)
  return a.tostring()