Dave Opstad wrote: > Sorry, that should have been: > > cdb += struct.pack(">L", skip)[1:] >
">L" and ">I" produce exactly the same 4-byte result. The change from [-3:] to [1:] is a minor cosmetic improvement, but obscures the underlying ... a bit like putting mascara on a pig. I got the impression that the OP was interested in more radical improvement. Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list