Packing data

[bvdpoel at uniserve.com]

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.

I figured that struct.pack('b', var) might work ... but var can't be a
list and the fmt string has to be the right size. So, I can do something
like:

	struct.pack('bbb', v1, v2, v3)

but a more general implimentation escapes my small brain.




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