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[Franck Bui-Huu]

yes but the counted length string must be just before the string

with ?X syntax you can use a length which can be stored wherever
you want (before the string yet)

Richard Brodie a écrit:

>"Tim Peters" <tim.one at comcast.net> wrote in message
>news:mailman.1048262974.10758.python-list at python.org...
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>>>did someone extend struct module to manage not fixed lengh of
>>>array.
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>>Doesn't seem worth the confusion or bother to me.
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>The p format does seem to have rather curious semantics; I would
>have thought the 'least surprising' thing would be for it to take a string
>and store it as a counted length string.
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>'B?(1)c' looks like ugly syntax though. What about *p for an implied
>length byte-counted string?
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