Perl -> Python unpack

James Mills prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
Sat Aug 7 02:43:39 EDT 2010


On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:30 AM, James Mills
<prologic at shortcircuit.net.au> wrote:
> What does a* or A* translate to in Python when unpacking
> binary data with struct.unpack(...) ?

Fine I"ll answer my own question.

Python _does not_ support implicit size
in struct formatting rules. sizes are explicit
meaning that you must "compute" the size
you require.

a* or A* would translate to 10s for example
where you want a string with a size of 10.

cheers
James


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