Igor Katson wrote:
I pretty much understand what they do, but what's the case of using these modules by example? Is it something like pickle, to store the data efficiently in files?
Mostly it is for access to specific binary data structures. If you know a particular file format, you can read it with a combination of struct and array, ans similarly can write in that format by such use. So like pickle in a way, but pickle is talking Python-to-Python, while things built with these will be more likely Python-to-wire or wire-to-Python when talking over a TCP/IP connection, or Python-to-file and file-to-Python, where the other user of the file may be a completely different program. --Scott David Daniels scott.dani...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
