A class for C-like structuures in Python

Kevin Digweed Kevin.Digweed at dial.pipex.com
Wed Aug 9 05:21:54 EDT 2000


Alex Martelli wrote:
> It would also be possible (but this is a matter of performance, and
> not a very important one) to optimize asBytes, if it's called often,
> into a single statement:
> 
>     def asBytes(self):
>         return apply(struct.pack,[self.fmt]+self.members.values())

Be careful here - {}.values() does not yield a predictably ordered list.

Cheers, Kev.



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