On Thursday 06 August 2009 20:50:30 Martin P. Hellwig wrote: > Thanks all for your insights and suggestions. > It seems to me that there are a couple of ways to this bit manipulation > and a couple of foreign modules to assist you with that. > > Would it be worth the while to do a PEP on this? > Personally I think that it would be nice to have a standard module in > Python for this but perhaps there is a good reason that there isn't > already one.
I agree that it would be nice - I think it would be nice if something like this is added to the struct module to give a "this is the obvious way that python handles foreign data" module - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list