Is there a more elegant way to do this?

[Jeff Epler]

something like this:
>     def pack(self):
>         lst = ['id', 'parent', 'number', 'x', 'y', 'z', 'red', \
>                    'green', 'blue', 'size', 'rotate', 'translucency']
          values = [getattr(self, attr) for attr in lst]
          return struct.pack('<IIIiiiBBBHHH', *values)

Jeff
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