Low level memory management

[Andrew MacIntyre]

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Lorenzo Bolognini wrote:

> is there a way to manipulate at a low level memory in Python (as in C) ?
>
> I know that Python wasn't thought to do that but there maybe a Python module
> that acts as a wrapper around some low level functions written in C.

Depends what you want.  Python is capable of bit twiddling, and there's
also the struct module for packing/unpacking raw byte sequences into more
usable Python datatypes.

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