Nobody wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:39:26 -0800, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:You originally stated that you want to "scramble" the bytes -- if you mean to implement some sort of encryption algorithm you should know that most of them work in blocks as the "key" is longer than one byte.Block ciphers work in blocks. Stream ciphers work on bytes, regardless of the length of the key.
It's still more efficient to read in blocks, even if you're going to process the bytes one at a time. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
