Does Python provide "Struct" data structure?

Bjoern Schliessmann usenet-mail-0306.20.chr0n0ss at spamgourmet.com
Fri Sep 22 11:48:12 EDT 2006


Daniel Mark wrote:

> I have two following questions:
> 
> 1> Does Python provide such Struct in this standard libary.
> Python has "4.3 struct -- Interpret strings as packed binary
> data", but it looks like different from what I really want to get.

Yes, that module is used when you want to deal with C structs in
binary form (e.g. useful at networking with binary protocols).
 
Try using dictionaries or custom, field-only class instances
as "struct".

Regards,


Björn

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