Fixed format input

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Na Li wrote:
> 
> Hi, I am new to python but has been programming with Perl for a while. Is
> there a way to read fixed field length format input files in python? Like
> what can be done with Perl unpack() function?

Look at the struct module which is part of the standard Python 
module library.

Erik
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