akineko wrote:
Hello everyone,I need to handle binary files that contain 64-bit (or 128-bit in the furture) unsigned int data. Python's array seems not supporting unsigned int type beyond 32-bit ('L'). I would like to use Python array as I need to make my program work on both big-endian machines as well as on little-endian machines. What is the best way to deal with 64-bit / 128-bit data elements in Python (must support byteswap())? (must be machine-independent)
You might give numpy a try. We support uint64 data even on 32-bit machines provided that your C compiler does. I haven't seen uint128 in the wild, though.
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